As we look to extending the Web to all corners of the globe, this leads to some problems. Users don't typically want to hear about technical difficulties. They just want things to work for them in their cultural environment.

In a recent article by some people introducing XML to the Ethiopic community we read the following:

The notion of XML not being able to support complete native markup for certain scripts ... seems to carry a negative stigma of unfairness and lack of equal representation of writing systems around the world.