UTF-8 is a Brilliant Design — Vishnu's Pages
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What Jamie wrote
Character encoding is one of those things that every programmer would rather never have to deal with, but you do. I think we'd all be happy for AI to just handle it. This is a nice analysis of how encoding is designed with UTF-8 and how it so elegantly handles backward compatibility all the way to 7-bit ASCII.