The Church, Technology... no Unicode?

The Church has struggled with internationalization of its software since we started using computers. A 1984 Ensign article reports how technology was accelerating work for many departments of the church (especially for temple ordinances), but notes that the technology was not yet adapted for temples in the Orient. We still have this problem today. The Church has been very slow to adopt the Unicode standard, which is now almost two decades old. The Mission Office System still uses European character encoding, making MOS nearly unusable for missions in Asia. Even the new FamilySearch has only recently added support for Chinese names, as per the Church's own temple submission standards. Late may be better than never, but as for supporting Church software outside the Americas and Europe, the Church needs to step its efforts.