Once had a customer who did the same. His reason at the time was that his customers see boxes otherwise. This was one of my first projects and I was still in sc

Once had a customer who did the same. His reason at the time was that his customers see boxes otherwise. This was one of my first projects and I was still in school then. Didn't know anything about unicode, plus unicode was not that popular then. I guess, may be your customer has the same problem.