> unicode has variable width characters, so sometimes character array indexes are no longer O(1)! > Unicode is not a good system. Unicode is excellent. Your g

> unicode has variable width characters, so sometimes character array indexes are no longer O(1)! > Unicode is not a good system. Unicode is excellent. Your gripe is with human languages and their scripts. It wasn't the Unicode consortium who decided that some scripts have oddities like single glyphs that can encode anything between a single sound and a whole sentence, or oddities like different 'cases' where glyphs change form just because they happen to be at the beginning of a sentence or proper noun