Comment by WalterBright

Too bad we now have Unicode, an elegant castle covered with ugly graffiti and ramshackle addons. For example:

1. normalization

2. backwards running text (hey, why not add spiral running text?)

3. fonts

4. invisible characters

5. multiple code points with the same glyph

6. glyphs defined by multiple code points (gee, I thought Unicode was to get away with that mess from code pages!)

7. made up languages (Elvish? Come on!)

8. you vote for my made-up emoticon, and I'll vote for yours!