On Wed, 22 Jun 2016, Toby Thain wrote: > Do you have a counterproposal? What problem do you think UTF-8 is trying > to solve?
Oh, heck no! I don't have any wish to wade into that particular swamp full of alligators. I have no counterproposal and as far as "what problem is UTF-8 trying to solve?" my repsonse is "too many at once." > > People who > > complain about twos-compliment being a weird hack ... > I haven't heard that particular complaint. Got a cite? Just some internet bungholes on reddit. Brother, just remember, *you* asked, and you can never get the time back: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d92jj/why_computers_use_twos_complement_to_represent/ -Swift
