Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Joakim]

On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 19:38:21 UTC, Mr. Anonymous wrote:
> On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 19:25:37 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> I'm not sure if you were trying to make my point, but you just 
>> did.  There are only 19 results for that search string.  If 
>> UTF-8 were such a rousing success and most developers found it 
>> easy to understand, you wouldn't expect only 19 results for it 
>> and 8 against it.  The paucity of results suggests most don't 
>> know how it works or perhaps simply annoyed by it, liking the 
>> internationalization but disliking the complexity.
>
> Man, you're a bullshit machine!
What can I say?  I'm very good at interpreting bad data. ;)