David,

> Yoshiki - I am intrigued by your statement.  Could you say more
> about what you think Unicode's shortcomings are?  And what a good
> multilingualization standard might look like?

  I could... But I don't exactly want to do that^^;  There must be
plenty of documents on the web.

http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/links-characters.html

  One of the big problem is the round-trip conversion (apart from
  han-unification).  Googling

    "round trip conversion unicode jis"

or something like that might give you the ideas.

-- Yoshiki