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by msla 409 days ago
> Unicode is not the only character set (or the best one); this is a falsehood programmers believe about character sets

Unicode is the best if I want to communicate with other people. I lived through the 1990s; you won't convince me that playing "guess the encoding" with dozens of subtly-incompatible standards (and non-standards, and almost-standards) was a good time, or that having to override a web browser's helpful guess was fun.