Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Marco Leise]

Am Sun, 26 May 2013 21:25:36 +0200
schrieb "Joakim" <joakim at airpost.net>:

> On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 19:11:42 UTC, Mr. Anonymous wrote:
> > 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
> 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.

Lol, https://www.google.com/search?q=%22utf-8+is+the+best%22

-- 
Marco