On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:42:37 -0500
"Mayayana"  wrote:

>   So all I was saying was that UTF-8 was far easier than
> any other approach, using "wide characters", when it came
> time to fully support all languages under one system. Even now
> I'm not sure how much it's really used.

 Anyone who has to support multiple languages tends to use unicode
internally for the sake of sanity (I was for a while internationalisation
specialist (among other hats) on the Yahoo! front page team). We had loads
of fun with external feeds claiming to be ISO8859-1 and sending Win-1252 -
they're almost but not quite the same.

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