Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Joakim]

On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 12:55:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/26/2013 4:31 AM, Joakim wrote:
>> My single-byte encoding has none of these problems, in fact, 
>> it's much faster
>> and uses less memory for the same function, while providing 
>> additional speedups,
>> from the header, that are not available to UTF-8.
>
> C'mon, Joakim, show us this amazing strstr() implementation for 
> your scheme!
You will see it when it's built into a fully working single-byte 
encoding implementation.  I don't write toy code, particularly 
inefficient functions like yours, for the reasons given, which 
seem to have gone over your head.

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhRUe-gz690
Heh, never seen that sketch before.  Never understood why anyone 
likes this silly Monty Python stuff, from what little I've seen.