Yup. When it comes right down to it, Microsoft's handling (or rather, lack thereof) of Unicode is what finally got me to switch to the Mac. Clear sailing with Unicode ever since. Except for some problems with ext3 on Feisty getting filenames with accented characters to work right. And that has nothing to do with the Mac.

Don't get me wrong; I have no idea if my problem is related to ext3... just happens to be the file system in question.