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Aluvus

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Why do they have two anyway?

Probably for about the same reason that there is a Unicode code point for "multiplication sign", distinct from the one for the letter x or asterisk. There might be some context (now or in the future) where it would be desirable to represent them with different glyphs (images), so they give you a way to specify exactly what you really mean. Unicode is all about future-proofing.