Newbie question about text encoding

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Le vendredi 27 février 2015 02:05:38 UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
> 
> E.g. I think we should all agree that the English "A" and the French "A"
> shouldn't count as separate characters, although the Greek "Α" and
> Russian "А" do.
> 


Yes. Simple and logical explaination.
Unicode does not handle languages per se, it encodes scripts
for languages.