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by jahewson 3498 days ago
This already exists in Unicode, it's called "Variation Selectors" and they have their own block and are used to select emoji skin tones amongst other things.

But it would be wrong to use them in this case because an IPA G and the letter G are semantically different things and should not be unified into a single character just because they look similar.