> any character is easily representable Representation is one thing, but for the user, presentation matters; the user in the article wouldn't have been happy i

> any character is easily representable Representation is one thing, but for the user, presentation matters; the user in the article wouldn't have been happy if the bank had stored the diacritics but still communicated without them. I'll bet that 99% of systems that happily handle a Russian or Korean name will store a Mongolian name correctly but utterly fail at printing it.