Multicode: a truly multilingual approach to text encoding

Unicode was designed to extend ASCII for encoding text in different languages, but it still has several important drawbacks. Multicode addresses many of Unicode´s drawbacks and should have considerable appeal to programmers who work with text in a variety of languages. Its future, however, depends on the computer industry´s acceptance. Multicode can represent Unicode files because it reserves a character set for Unicode. Converting Multicode to Unicode is also straightforward (although the opposite is not). Thus, both approaches can coexist-Multicode for programming ease and Unicode to support unified fonts