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I feel that based off my experiences using and interacting with Japanese software. Very frequently, they exhibit exotic bugs and quirks that make me sincerely question the aptitude of the programmers involved.

Maybe the programmers in question are smart as in book smart, but they clearly don't know how to reflect that in practice.

Also, it truly is ridiculous that so many Japanese programs still can't unicode.

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I think starting with a certain complexity a polished product is more of an execution issue than it is of quality of programming.

In my experience, many programmers that are book smart can contribute to great working software, but can also produce crap when left to their own devices ("who cares about UX, look at this slick 3NF data model I fleshed out") or managed incompetently ("We fixed all the bugs that were in our bug tracker, therefore the software must be complete").

> Also, it truly is ridiculous that so many Japanese programs still can't unicode.

Can't, or won't? In truth, Unicode is a completely braindead standard

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