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A comment on UTF-8 Everywhere (2012).

Re:UTF-8 Everywhere (2012) by hackuser on Sunday June 19, 2016 @07:52PM (#11935342)
Is there any application where UTF-8 isn't the best choice for long-term (i.e., 20-200 year) forward compatibility?
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Re:UTF-8 Everywhere (2012) by niftich on Sunday June 19, 2016 @08:01PM (#11935374)
Places and situations where you can't accommodate variable-length encodings. As far as future-proofing, UTF-8 is essentially the new ASCII, in that UTF-8 will remain a backward-compatibility goal for any other format that will succeed it.
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Re:UTF-8 Everywhere (2012) by hackuser on Sunday June 19, 2016 @08:03PM (#11935381)
> As far as future-proofing, UTF-8 is essentially the new ASCII, in that UTF-8 will remain a backward-compatibility goal for any other format that will succeed it.

Yes, I love that every byte transmitted on the Internet still reserves code points for controlling teletype (or similar) machines.

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