I know Unicode exists, I know the basics of how it works, and I've even once written a "Hello, world" type of program that emitted Unicode.

But that's it. I've no practical usage for Unicode. I have somewhere the ability to bring up an xterm that's able to display some of the Unicode fonts (but far from all the defined code points) and I don't even remember whether it's on my PC or my laptop (or was it my previous laptop?).

Perl would still be as useful as it is for me (whether work related or private stuff) if it didn't had Unicode support. I won't be interested in Unicode until my xterm with its "6x13" font is able to display Unicode, and I've a convenient way of inputting Unicode - right now, I can't even remember how to input accented letters when using my editor.

As for the second question, I don't do PHP.

Abigail