&quot;Any other encoding system that keeps a cyrillic alphabet in a separate code range from the latin one would have this problem.&quot;<p>Then isn&#x27;t the solution to put the Cyrillic alphabet in the same space as the Latin one when the glyphs are identical?<p>In general, Unicode should merge code points a lot more readily than it does; it shouldn&#x27;t have some of the strange things it does have, which hog space that would be better used putting semi-common Chinese characters in the Basic Multilingual Pane; and the way it handles hangul is just embarrassing. It&#x27;s better than nothing (and better than the Codepage-&lt;Insert Number&gt; variety of solutions), but that doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s good; that&#x27;s what I mean by &quot;I Entity Unicode&quot;.