I will just add - Unicode isn't hard - until you have to display or otherwise deal with Right-To-Left languages and their invisible control characters. I find

I will just add - Unicode isn't hard - until you have to display or otherwise deal with Right-To-Left languages and their invisible control characters. I find out that even working as a user with text that is right-to-left in places and in other places left-to-right is hard. It's quite easy to deal with it programatically, but only before you have to display it somehow. Ok, sorry my ramblings.