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The tty isn't practical for anyone using a language with non-latin characters. AFAik it doesn't support unicode stuff like CJK languages or RTL/bidirectional text
The framebuffer console does actually support UTF-8 if your locale is set up correctly (source: I just switched to my TTY and tried it). Not sure about right to left/bidirectional though.