> ARIB STD-B24, the captioning standard used in Japanese television, has its own text encoding with characters not found in either JIS X 0201 or JIS X 0208. Am

> ARIB STD-B24, the captioning standard used in Japanese television, has its own text encoding with characters not found in either JIS X 0201 or JIS X 0208. Amazingly enough, ARIB STD-B24 is one of the major source of Unicode emojis. So transcoding would actually work for them! (I am aware of some exceptions, but semantically there is no loss.) Unicode and UTF-8 are truly eating every other legacy encoding else, so much so that it is becoming more reasonable to have a separate transcoding step.