I agree. Including: > Base-122 encoded strings contain characters which did not seem to play well with copy-pasting. A very important part of web development

I agree. Including: > Base-122 encoded strings contain characters which did not seem to play well with copy-pasting. A very important part of web development is being able to manipulate text documents. It seems that using UTF-8 in more places can reveal cracks in implementations for browsers/DE's/editors/terminals/etc.