On 14 Feb 2021 at 14:58:31 GMT, Ahem A Rivet's Shot 
wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 08:32:36 -0500
> "Mayayana"  wrote:
>
>>    So it's a good solution for webpages, but once you get into
>>  entering, editing and storing multi-lingual text it gets very
>>  complicated. Only for those of us who speak English is it
>>  reasonable to say that UTF-8 makes everything easy.
>
>  Not so! Unicode is the enabler for anyone who needs to handle
> multiple scripts and languages, sure if you just want CJK then you could
> use SHIFT-JIS but if you want to be able to hold text and not worry about
> what script or language it belongs to and mix scripts and languages freely
> then Unicode is the only solution.

UTF-8 maps directly onto Unicode. Given the UTF-8 byte sequence, you can
directly compute the Unicode value. UTF-8 has a number of advantages such as:

1) It is compatible with ASCII (which forms the bottom page of Unicode)

2) You can recover from a transmission error which may add or remove a byte or
two.

So all those ANSI pages need to go in the bin, really speaking.

--
Tim

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