Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Dicebot]

On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 09:36:43 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
> What about Chinese? Russian? Japanese? It is doable, but I can 
> tell you for a fact that they very much don't like reading it 
> that way.
>
> You know, having done programming in Japan, I know that a lot 
> of devs simply don't care for english, and they'd really enjoy 
> just being able to code in Japanese. I can't speak for the 
> other countries, but I'm sure that large but not spread out 
> countries like China would also just *love* to be able to code 
> in 100% Madarin (I'd say they wouldn't care much for English 
> either).

What about poor guys from other country that will support that 
project after? English is a de-facto standard language for 
programming for a good reason.