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No project is ever safe from complicators. This is why we need the KISS enforcers.

• flohofwoe 15d ago
  But the nice thing about UTF-8 is that this proposal isn't really a "complication", but a minimal and natural extension of the original idea to allow more than one lead byte.
  • entrope 15d ago
    Allowing more than one lead byte is a complication of the existing standard. As many others have pointed out, we have plenty of coding space without that (e.g. by allowing 5- and 6-byte UTF-8 again), so the case for the extra complexity is currently not compelling.
  • snvzz 15d ago
    It starts like this, and ends up like x86.