A gnumeric maintainer whose name rhymes with "Amadeus" suggested using exact().
On GIMPNet's #gnumeric channel.
Like
=if(exact("♂","♀"),"The same","different")
He seemed to think it's intentional.
I dunno.
But exact() seems to work for me.
So,
Kingsley
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