Linux had the luxury of waiting until UTF-8 was available before settling on a Unicode strategy. Given that UTF-8 was extremely compatible both forwards and bac

Linux had the luxury of waiting until UTF-8 was available before settling on a Unicode strategy. Given that UTF-8 was extremely compatible both forwards and backwards, it was a fortuitous choice. I weep a little whenever I think about how Microsoft messed up by being an early adopter of Unicode - being an early adopter should have made life better, not worse.