The four-leggeds blamed the cleansing on the humans, and decided to destroy all two-leggeds.

Ah, things get tricky here; Unicode is kind of a bear when you consider 'characters' because its codepoints aren't necessarily characters. An example would be the so-called combining characters which you can use for things like accents or ZALGO-text.

However, they were in my way and I had no time for such faffery.

This fell whore of thine, / Hath in her more deſtruction then thy Sword, / For all her Cherubin looke.