>modern Unicode font That isn't unicode though. That's a font. You can have bitmap unicode fonts if you want. Let's put it this way. Say you have a unicode aw

>modern Unicode font That isn't unicode though. That's a font. You can have bitmap unicode fonts if you want. Let's put it this way. Say you have a unicode aware library and only ever use the ASCII compatible codes. You aren't using more space for fonts. If you want to read a Chinese document, yes you would need to then install Chinese fonts. That would take space yes. But it's possible. If you only speak Chinese that's something you have to deal with. Could you have a font for every unicode point at the same time, probably not, but most people don't need to read most code points most of the time.