Nov. 8, 2017
6:59 p.m.
Of course. But the main point is that most modern systems are able to display a good deal of the commonly used scripts without extra downloads. My iPad, configured for dead-standard English, can still display Wiki pages in Russian and Greek and Hebrew and Arabic and Chinese and Japanese and Korean and.... If I want a nicer Chinese font, I can deal with that myself, but the basic support is there and I don't see boxes. I even get Mongolian and Thai.
I use alpine in the iTerm2 terminal emulator on a Mac, and it displays all sorts of Unicode just fine. If it can do it, anything can. R's, John