Problem Statement

As the world gets smaller each day, internationalization becomes more and more important.   For handling multiple languages, Unicode is your best friend. It is a very capable tool, but also quite complex compared to older single- and double-byte character encodings. How well prepared is your programming language for Unicode?

Discuss and demonstrate its unicode awareness and capabilities.

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This task is a bit unusual in that it encourages general discussion rather than clever coding.

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