Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Entry]

On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 16:05:13 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
> On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 15:48:12 UTC, Entry wrote:
>> I'm glad you agree, though I believe that I never said 
>> anything about D 'choosing' which human languages are 
>> compatible with it. I just expressed my belief that should 
>> people choose to construct something, be it a ship or a 
>> computer program, the usage of a single language will greatly 
>> enhance their progress (ever heard the story of the Tower of 
>> Babel? wink wink). Sorry if my previous comment seemed 
>> hostile, that was not my intention.
>
> If the programmers who are going to be working on that code 
> don't understand the "Single Language", then what use is it?

Then there's no helping it. Though I wonder what kind of a 
programmer doesn't understand English enough to at least read the 
code and comments.