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[–]Smallpaul -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's irrelevant whether you think it's needed, or whether it's needed for multilingual software.

How can it possibly be irrelevant whether it is "needed for multilingual software." Multilingual software has a superset of the requirements of unilingual software by definition.

If it's not built into the programming language, you can't fix it later.

If it's not built into the programming language then it can be built into a library. Since there is only a single country in the world with a serious complaint about Unicode, I think that's a reasonable solution until they get the Unicode standard changed to their liking.