Comment Re:Updated Policy: (Score 1) 372
Quite frankly, Unicode works well right now, provided you use UTF-8 or UTF-32. UTF-16 and surrogate pairs is really quite an ugly hack, and 16-bits are obviously not enough when we need nearly 21 bits to encode all the existing characters already. UTF-8 is quite elegant (compatible with ASCII, but easily countable and self-synchronizing) and UTF-8 can easily be extended to 31 bits, should we need more codepoints in the future. UTF-16 can't be extended in any easy way and will just become a nightmare to support, should future versions of Unicode decide to start using codepoints above U+10FFFF