A big part of why it worked for him was not only that he was real famous, but the whole technology world in the area was new, and he was the first to do it. If

A big part of why it worked for him was not only that he was real famous, but the whole technology world in the area was new, and he was the first to do it. If everyone started doing it, people would quickly begin ignoring it, or a standard Unicode mechanism would have been developed. And now, his name has reverted to Prince.