> But Unicode was designed by the same people who designed ASCII - monolingual Americans who never had to deal on a daily basis with anything that doesn't fit into the 26 letters of the English alphabet.
Since you could watch this all unfold in real time (and can go back and read mailing list archives back ab initio) you can easily see the participants and their positions and arguments. The “people who made Unicode” came from and continue to come from all over the world.
Also, do you remember what (polyglot computing) life was like before Unicode?
This is not even remotely true.