> write software avoiding Unicode as much as possible; if you need international text then you can specify which code page numbers to use. For the sake of hum

> write software avoiding Unicode as much as possible; if you need international text then you can specify which code page numbers to use. For the sake of humanity, please don’t say we should consider bringing back code pages. My European language alone has 3 different ones (or was it 4?), and you can still see some places where code pages keep causing problems posthumously because they mojibake quite readily into other encodings and screw everything up. I was an infant when codepages were all the rage, and it’s still causing problems to this day even though I never had to contend with them in day to day use. Unicode is not perfect, but it’s here and it provides a unified character namespace for the whole planet. That’s certainly something I don’t want to leave behind.