1. UTF-8 is not an unreasonable encoding, but it is an encoding of an unreasonable character set and is also unnecessary here. It is better to avoid needing unn

1. UTF-8 is not an unreasonable encoding, but it is an encoding of an unreasonable character set and is also unnecessary here. It is better to avoid needing unnecessary conversions that will then be needed in both programs, even though it should not be necessary. Not everything is using UTF-8 and Unicode. I continue to use (and write) programs that do not use Unicode. (And, if it is necessary, conversion program can also be written in uxn; the fact that uxn does not use Unicode does not prevent this; you can implement whatever character sets/encodings that you want to do.) 2. Sometimes it might, but that has nothing to do with uxn. Sometimes it isn't helpful to be differentiated anyways, and sometimes this differentiating byte arrays from text causes problems, too (it isn't really so uncommon). 3. The niju program does not use Unicode and does not need it; it works better without it. If you do want more sophisticated Japanese text, even then there are better ways than using Unicode.