Keith 7-bits-forever Moore writes:
We're a long way from discovering a Universal Format for everything
(and no, UTF-8 is NOT it
Don't hold back, Keith. Tell us exactly what's wrong with UTF-8.
backward compatibility
What exactly is the problem, Keith? You're unhappy that UTF-8 software
won't read your EBCDIC files? Or that your 36-bit computers need new
software to handle UTF-8 data?
only applicable to a limited kind of text)
What are you talking about, Keith?
---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago