title: Why isn't everything we do in Unicode?
body: <p>Given that Unicode has <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#History_of_Unicode" rel="noreferrer">been around for 18 years</a>, why are there still apps that don't have Unicode support? Even my experiences with some operating systems and Unicode have been painful to say the least. As Joel Spolsky pointed out in 2003, <a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html" rel="noreferrer">it's not that hard.</a> So what's the deal? Why can't we get it together?</p>