Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[John Colvin]

On Monday, 27 May 2013 at 06:11:20 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> You claimed that my encoding was reinventing the wheel, 
> therefore the onus is on you to show which of the multiple 
> encodings CDRA uses that I'm reinventing.  I'm not interested 
> in delving into the docs for some dead IBM format to prove 
> _your_ point.

It's your idea and project. Showing that it is original / doing 
your research on previous efforts is probably something that 
*you* should do, whether or not it's someone else's "point".

> More likely, you are just dead wrong and CDRA simply uses code 
> pages
Based on what?