Anyway, with the fix, there is no reason to prefer Unicode-based
local character sets, which is not widely used today, than existing
local character sets already used world wide.
Of course there is. What do you do when someone wants to combine charsets
from different nations? For example, say a Japanese man named Ohta married
a Mexican woman whose paternal surname was Colón. Their child's full surname,
if they lived in Mexico, would be "Ohta y Colón". If that child wants to spell
their surname correctly, they can't use a
just-European or just-Japanese character set; they probably need Unicode.
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