Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Peter Alexander]

On Saturday, 25 May 2013 at 14:16:21 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
> int countSpaces(const(char)* c)
> {
>     int n = 0;
>     while (*c)
>         if (*c == ' ')
>             ++n;
>     return n;
> }

Oops. Missing a ++c in there, but I'm sure the point was made :-)