Unicode can't do it without a breaking change. But if you support non-unicode encodings in the traditional, documented and standard way then your application wi

Unicode can't do it without a breaking change. But if you support non-unicode encodings in the traditional, documented and standard way then your application will handle it fine. Who knows, one day a successor to unicode may come out that can handle all languages properly within a single encoding, in which case an application written to be encoding-aware will support it without even a recompile.