Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Dicebot]

On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 11:29:47 UTC, Manu wrote:
> Have you ever worked on code written by people who barely speak 
> English?
> Even if they write English words, that doesn't make it 
> 'English', or any
> easier to understand. And people often tend to just 
> transliterate into
> latin, which is kinda pointless too, how does that help?

I have had comments with Finnish poetry in code I was responsible 
to support :( No need to provide means to think such approach is 
the way to go.