Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Walter Bright]

On 5/26/2013 1:44 PM, Hans W. Uhlig wrote:
> Using those characters would be wonderful and while we do have unicode software
> support we don't really have unicode hardware support. I am still on my 102 key
> keyboard and I haven't really seen a good expanded character keyboard come along.

I have a post-it stuck to my monitor with the numbers for various unicode 
characters, but I just can't see that for writing code.