@b0rk@social.jvns.ca I worked on 'nix internationalization at AT&T's Tokyo Office, 1988/1989. We thought we could make Unicode fly in 16 bits. Wrong. Hilariously, when Mickey$oft reimplemented VMS to create the first real modern OS for peecees (NT, OS/2 Warp doesn't count), they listened to us, and used utf16 for internal stuff. Now that even 32-bit unicode is a variable-width encoding, it doesn't matter. Working at AT&T for an idiot boss wasn't fun, and I've never touched a Unix since. And won't. Ever.