Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Joakim]

On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 14:37:27 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> IHBT. You said that to handle multilanguage strings, your
Pretty funny how you claim you've been trolled and then go on to 
make a bunch of trolling arguments, which seem to imply you have 
no idea how a single-byte encoding works.  I'm not going to 
bother explaining it to you, anyone who knows encodings can 
easily figure it out from what I've said so far.

> Clearly, we're not seeing what you're seeing here. So instead 
> of making
> general statements about the superiority of your scheme, you 
> might want
> to show us the actual code.  So far, I haven't seen anything 
> that
> convinces me that your scheme is any better.  In fact, from 
> what I can
> see, it's a lot worse, and you're just evading pointed 
> questions about
> how to address those problems.  Maybe that's a wrong 
> perception, but not
> having any actual code to look at, I'm having a hard time 
> believing your
> claims. Right now I'm leaning towards agreeing with Walter that 
> you're
> just trolling us (and rather successfully at that).
When someone makes arguments that fly over your head, that's not 
trolling, that's you not understanding what they're saying.  I 
have demolished every claim that has been made about single-byte 
encoding being worse.  If you can't understand my arguments, you 
need to go out and learn some more about these issues.

> So, please show us the code. Otherwise, I think I should just 
> stop
> responding, as we're obviously not on the same page and this 
> discussion
> isn't getting anywhere.
I've made my position clear: I don't write toy code.  It will 
take too long for the kind of encoding I have in mind, so it 
isn't worth my time, and if you can't understand the higher-level 
technical language I'm using in these posts, you won't understand 
the code anyway.  I have adequately sketched what I'd do, so that 
anyone proficient in the art can reason about what the 
consequences of such a scheme would be.  Perhaps that doesn't 
include Walter and you.

I don't know why you'd want to keep responding to someone you 
think is trolling you anyway.