>First: why are you focusing on DBCS instead of Unicode? I can't answer for Johnny. However my own answer is that DBCS has been around for a long, long time in the mainframe environment and there is a lot of software that supports it. Changing to Unicode is probably the way to go, however I would expect it to take several years. For the forseeable future I would expect to continue supporting DBCS (and SBCS for that matter).
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