Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Mr. Anonymous]

On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 19:05:32 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 18:29:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> On 5/26/13 1:45 PM, Joakim wrote:
>>> What is extraordinary about "UTF-8 is shit?" It is obviously 
>>> so.
>>
>> Congratulations, you are literally the only person on the 
>> Internet who said so: http://goo.gl/TFhUO
> Haha, that is funny, :D though "unicode is shit" returns at 
> least 8 results.  How many people even know how UTF-8 works?  
> Given how few people use it, I'm not surprised most don't know 
> enough about how it works to criticize it.

On the other hand:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22utf-8+is+awesome%22

:D