The first letter of the alphabet is "A" not "a". This is because 65 is less than 97. If I ever have kids, instead of teaching them the normal alphabet song, they are going to learn the UTF-8 version of the song.
That is an incredibly good point. Also why are our characters shaped the way they are? Surely capitals should link to the lowercase more closely. Like how l and L are similar but a and A arent