The modest proposal was to extend this approach with all its complications to western alphabetic scripts where possible. Of course nobody wants to do that for o

The modest proposal was to extend this approach with all its complications to western alphabetic scripts where possible. Of course nobody wants to do that for obvious reasons, which also apply to the various languages that use Han-derived characters. The extra mechanisms required to work around unified Han remind me of the pre-unicode days when you needed to know what language a text was in to render it.