Other than the great UCS-2 cockup most of the issues with Unicode are either due to that human languages are a pain or are unpleasant backwards compatiblity thi

Other than the great UCS-2 cockup most of the issues with Unicode are either due to that human languages are a pain or are unpleasant backwards compatiblity things. Only having the fully normalized forms would make things designed around Unicode a lot simpler, but the denormalized forms let things not designed for Unicode mostly work, which was key for getting people to actually use Unicode.