Programming languages and Unicode

Why aren't you using Perl?

http://i.imgur.com/19B6z.png
http://i.imgur.com/tHChZ.png

Christiansen, T. Unicode Support Shootout: the Good, the Bad, and the (mostly) Ugly. http://98.245.80.27/tcpc/OSCON2011/gbu.html

>>23
The next big language is likely to be Chinese.

Unicode is pretty messy, sort of like democracy. You can't please everyone optimally by doing everything they want.

>>27
A huge number of them already know English.