A decade ago that would be a valid argument, and processing Unicode text still isn&#x27;t trivial, but nowadays Unicode support (UTF-8 in particular) is so well embedded in all operating systems and programming languages that this is not the problem. And on most operating systems the problem simply doesn&#x27;t exist for most people because Unicode is the default.<p>The problem here is Microsoft clinging to legacy character encodings that have no place on a modern operating system as default for anything.