> That’s the case for any user though. If you’re Japanese and only ever read documents in Japanese then Shift-JIS is all you need and UTF-8 is a waste of bytes.

> That’s the case for any user though. If you’re Japanese and only ever read documents in Japanese then Shift-JIS is all you need and UTF-8 is a waste of bytes. Yes, i do not see the issue with it though - remember that i talked about the case where i explicitly do not care about interoperability, which is pretty much all the time. I do not see the problem to use specialized software in the rare cases where i'd need such interoperability (and again, i'm talking about myself here, not about everyone, although i suspect a lot of people rarely care about more than a single language - and note that i'm not a native English speaker). > . If you use a screen reader then there’s an immediate extraneous cost to your laptop or mobile phone in the form of a screen and a GPU. I'm not sure i follow, what sort of cost are you talking about? > The benefit though is interoperability and economies of scale. Similarly, i do not follow. I am talking about the complexity and resources needed by a GUI system. > And besides, another way of saying ‘not disabled’ is ‘temporarily abled’. Who knows when you’ll need assistive tech (if ever) I may also need better interoperability or any of the other features mentioned above, it isn't like my current needs are written in stone, but that is an issue to be solved when needed, if needed.