Well, you can constrain what kind of string encodings are acceptable in your structs. The reason it has so many is because so many were actually in use, sometim

Well, you can constrain what kind of string encodings are acceptable in your structs. The reason it has so many is because so many were actually in use, sometimes with important semantic differences that. You can't just hope that stream of 8bit bytes will not have anything outside of accepted in target system string understanding.