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It's long to explain; basically, "English" (as in, really English, and just English, even if this is a massive oversimplification) programs will work alright, but don't count on other western languages because they'll be screwed, but only for legacy 8 bits per character software, because everything from Asian languages (for which you need the fonts, but that's all) to European languages will always work fine in proper software thanks to Unicode. Ugh, it'd take me an hour to explain it all, sorry.