> UTF-8 as a fixed encoding only works if you manage to write mappers from and to alternative character set for practically any language outside US English. Fr

> UTF-8 as a fixed encoding only works if you manage to write mappers from and to alternative character set for practically any language outside US English. From a European perspective, this sounds very unlikely. Sure, you may have to deal with deprecated _encodings_, but I’d like to hear about mainstream languages with writing derived from the Latin alphabet, that aren’t supported by UTF-8