>supporting unicode is not as hard as it seems, just use from the beginning. Retrofitting unicode support onto existing programs however is a hard problem for

>supporting unicode is not as hard as it seems, just use from the beginning. Retrofitting unicode support onto existing programs however is a hard problem for all unicode-lacking but otherwise well-developed tools, with no sufficiently useful and also unicode supporting alternive, that you'd like to use, whats your proposal? Go back in time and tell them to use unicode from the start? Reimpliment them yourself? Give up and say no useful tool for me? There are a hundred reasons certain tooling isn't viable for your usecase; unicode support is rarely even close to being an immediate dealbreaker. Particularly because it can be sufficiently worked around.