Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Walter Bright]

On 5/25/2013 1:07 AM, Joakim wrote:
> The vast majority of non-english alphabets in UCS can be encoded in a single
> byte.  It is your exceptions that are not relevant.

I suspect the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese would take exception to being 
called irrelevant.

Good luck with your scheme that can't handle languages written by billions of 
people!