> Unicode is about functionality, not some fancy unnecessary decoration. At least, it is what was intended, but it has many problems. You can do international

> Unicode is about functionality, not some fancy unnecessary decoration. At least, it is what was intended, but it has many problems. You can do international text without it. Unfortunately, it is also used for fancy decorations too. One possible alternative is TRON code, although usually it would be to not to force character encoding on programs that don't need them. With Unicode, there is then duplicated work of validation, etc, which can both cause some data to be lost and can slow it down because it does things redundantly, etc. It tries to display text using mixed directions in a way that isn't very good, etc.