[msla]

> UTF-8 isn't such a bad encoding (although it isn't ideal for fix pitch text; I invented a character set and encoding which would be better for fix pitch text).

This is utterly incoherent.

[msla]

Can anyone explain how the statement I responded to makes sense?

I must be wrong, getting so many disagreements.

[magicalhippo]

Well, UTF-8 is an encoding of Unicode, which allows for surrogate pairs and all that jazz which can be a bad fit for fixed-pitch text.

For example, take a Zalgo text generator[1] and try to make the result make sense in a fixed-pitch (monospace) setting.

At least that's my interpretation of what he tried to convey.

[1]: http://eeemo.net/