Strength and Weakness of the Unicode

Strength: Supported by Unicode Consortium Members: IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, SAP
  Known as world's standard definition. If the code for Latin character ‘A’ is U+0041, then all developers dan software vendors must agree with this code.

Weakness: Unable to represents all the Han (Kanji) characters, since they consist of > 65,000 characters.

 

Limitation of the Unicode

Codifying character, not glyph
RA and GANTUNGAN RA are the same characters, even though the glyphs are different.
TALENG (E) positioned after the syllable, even though visually appear before the syllable.
Does not include rendering engine Rendering engine technology: OpenType, AAT, Graphite, Uniscribe, IBM ICU
Does not include keyboard driver Keyboard driver technology: Microsoft’s Input Method Editor (IME), Keyman

 

Unicode and the other text processing technology