You don't think something being hard to input can be blamed on the OS at all?
The only built-in way to type a sharp outside wordpad is to have a special registry key set then hold alt and type +266F, isn't it? That sounds to me like it falls under "dreadful support for Unicode".
The only built-in way to type a sharp outside wordpad is to have a special registry key set then hold alt and type +266F, isn't it? That sounds to me like it falls under "dreadful support for Unicode".