Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Walter Bright]

On 5/29/2013 3:26 AM, qznc wrote:
> Once I heared an argument from developers working for banks. They coded
> business-specific stuff in Java. Business-specific meant financial concepts with
> german names (e.g. Vermögen,Bürgschaft), which sometimes include äöüß. Some of
> those concept had no good translation into english, because they are not used
> outside of Germany and the clients prefer the actual names anyways.

German is pretty easy to do in ASCII: Vermoegen and Buergschaft