Interestingly, this was a mistake even the creators of UTF-8 wanted to make > The 4, 5, and 6 byte sequences are only there for political reasons. I would pref

Interestingly, this was a mistake even the creators of UTF-8 wanted to make > The 4, 5, and 6 byte sequences are only there for political reasons. I would prefer to delete these Obviously 5 and 6 byte sequences are consigned to history but 4 byte sequences turned out to be useful for more than "political reasons". http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history (scroll right to the bottom)