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> Unicode is, in practice, a system that works the same way for ~every human language except Japanese This is simply not true. As I've pointed out in a sibling

> Unicode is, in practice, a system that works the same way for ~every human language except Japanese This is simply not true. As I've pointed out in a sibling comment, Unicode has a lot of surprising and frustrating behaviors with many European languages as well if you use it without locale data. The characters will look right, but e.g. searching, sorting and case-insensitive comparisons will not work as expected if the application is not locale aware.

lmm 3y ago
> The characters will look right, but e.g. searching, sorting and case-insensitive comparisons will not work as expected This is quite a different situation from Japan. A lot of applications don't do searching, sorting, or case-insensitive comparisons, but virtually every application displays text.