> 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 fr

> 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.