Unicode lets you record the data but does not address the societal problem of record keeping in a way that all staff can use.

British Columbia has a very large population of Chinese speakers. If you allow multiple language script for every language you would still need a transliteration in English or French, since they are the common denominator languages. Same is true to for Cyrillic, Arabic and Korean, all of which are well represented in modern day Canadian society.

Some years back the City of Richmond BC was having difficulty in the fire department because they could not identify the names of some local businesses that called in because the signs were all in Chinese script. :)

Not sure how that has been or was actually rectified.