> OK, so here's a question: How do you actually type in Unicode characters 
> that aren't on your keyboard?

Hold down left alt and press some numbers on the keypad.  THe only one I can 
remember is the one for the plus/minus symbol (Alt+0177) as I use it a lot 
and it's not on my keyboard.

> It's nice that Unicode exists, and a tiny fraction of software in 
> existence even supports it,

Funny I found that most software does support it, otherwise I would be 
continually screwed in my job not being able to open documents or understand 
email from Japanese people.  Here (Vista Business 64bit) I can even create a 
file/folder in explorer with Japanese characters, then zip it with WinZip 
and everything works fine.

> and approximately 3 fonts in the world have the appropriate glyphs in 
> them.

I know when I get Japanese documents, they normally use a special font like 
"MS Mincho", I suspect it would be a bit of a wasted effort to make every 
font contain every single unicode character.  There also seems to be fonts 
like "Arial Unicode MS" that maybe contain all (most?) of them (it at least 
contains all the Japanese characters).

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