Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> the *only* encoding capable of representing
> everything unambiguously.

Yes it is ambiguous when the codepage is not expicitly declared but the
bigger advantage is using more than one codepage in a single text, like
quoting Hebrew and Greek in German. Personally I stick to TeX syntax
even for those. One character -- one byte has its advantages if you like
the command line and editor makros.

The downside are the malicious possibilities it opens. In my eyes it was
a big mistake to open domain names to more than ASCII. There are many
(near) lookalikes and that fools even the careful user, who makes a
point of checking the true destination before clicking.


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