On: UTF-8 Everywhere (2012)

[hackuser]

Is there any application where UTF-8 isn't the best choice for long-term (i.e., 20-200 year) forward compatibility?

[niftich → hackuser]

Places and situations where you can't accommodate variable-length encodings. As far as future-proofing, UTF-8 is essentially the new ASCII, in that UTF-8 will remain a backward-compatibility goal for any other format that will succeed it.

[hackuser → niftich]

> As far as future-proofing, UTF-8 is essentially the new ASCII, in that UTF-8 will remain a backward-compatibility goal for any other format that will succeed it.

Yes, I love that every byte transmitted on the Internet still reserves code points for controlling teletype (or similar) machines.