Actually, Joel's article is also outdated, e.g. Only code points 128 and above are stored using 2, 3, in fact, up to 6 bytes. See: What is the maximum number

Actually, Joel's article is also outdated, e.g. Only code points 128 and above are stored using 2, 3, in fact, up to 6 bytes. See: What is the maximum number of bytes for a UTF-8 encoded character? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9533258/what-is-the-maximum-number-of-bytes-for-a-utf-8-encoded-character http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9533258/what-is-the-maxim...