[georgemcbay]

Thanks for the link, the extra detail there is very helpful in understanding what the original newspaper article glossed over.

However (from your link):

"It is a plain text format which is not easily human readable and is not efficient in its storage structures. For example, a single Unicode character can take many bytes to store."

My faith in the competency of "digital detectives" is not fully restored...

Hopefully this is just another case of someone simplifying things to increase readability to a mainstream audience, but every time I read something like that related to CS/programming/IT I cringe in horror at all of the things I must have a horribly half-assed understanding of by not being an expert in that field and building what little knowledge I have on the subject from articles like these.

[starwed]

What is wrong with that quote? When discussing common criticisms of Mork, wikipedia states that: "The conflicting requirements gave Mork several suboptimal qualities. For example, despite the aim of efficiency, storing Unicode text takes three or six bytes per character."