I think I've yet to met a Japanese person who was even mildly unhappy to see their name rendered incorrectly due to Han Unification. It seems like when Unicode

I think I've yet to met a Japanese person who was even mildly unhappy to see their name rendered incorrectly due to Han Unification. It seems like when Unicode came out, the TRON guys and some other Japanese engineer were pretty vocal about the evil of Han Unification, but the reality is that the average Japanese user probably doesn't care. They get their name butchered at least once a month in their bank account statement (in half-width Katakana), and if they have an unusual character or a slightly unusual reading in their name, their fellow compatriots would butcher their name as well. Compared to that, the number of times people from Japan browsing at a site configured to display Japanese language with Chinese Fonts? That must happen once in Super Blue Blood Moon, but not that often. And "many" is definitely exaggeration, considering the number of Japanese name which use characters subject to heavily modified by unification. In other words, "bone" is not a popular character in Japanese names, who would have figured. Han Unification is not without its pains, of course, and I still can't tell for sure whether it was a good idea, but using EUC-JP or Shift-JIS is not going to get you around it, since you still need a Japanese font to display the characters correctly as they should look in Japanese. And I would gladly take UTF-8 over EUC-JP and Shift-JIS every day.