Can we somehow change UTF-8 to WTF-8? Over the last 12 years or so I have constantly been bitten in the ass by UTF-8. It first started when I moved from the US

Can we somehow change UTF-8 to WTF-8? Over the last 12 years or so I have constantly been bitten in the ass by UTF-8. It first started when I moved from the US to Europe and decided to help people make websites in their native language. More recently I was developing a piece of python code to help me with a thing. Running into UTF-8 problems made me decide to do a deep dive into what it is and how it works. After a week of diving down a rabbit hole I am still none the wiser. Blog post after blog post, video upon video, and it still doesn't click for me. Yes, I solved my problems, but in a black box type of way. Can anyone recommend a good book or long source to help me with this?