Why is Unicode worried about having separate character sets? Modern computers have plenty of storage space.
If someone enters a form with these characters how can a site know what language to show it as. It makes no sense to work this way.
If someone enters a form with these characters how can a site know what language to show it as. It makes no sense to work this way.
The jump from 8 bits to 16 bits effectively doubled memory costs and still wasn't enough to achieve its goal.
Later it turned out that 16 bits wasn't enough anyway, but we are left with the UCS-2 mess regardless. UCS-2 and CJK unification are historical mistakes in the development of Unicode that we are stuck dealing with.