Can you show some concrete instances of it being easier to work with compared to UTF-8? As far as I can see you gain variable length encoding (albeit in a poten

Can you show some concrete instances of it being easier to work with compared to UTF-8? As far as I can see you gain variable length encoding (albeit in a potentially confusing way) while losing ASCII support and also not gaining the pure simplicity of UTF-32. Oh and also endianness, although personally that's probably never an issue I will run into.