Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> writes:
> The express goal of the Unicode consortium is to replace all existing
> encodings with Unicode. My personal opinion is that a Unicode
> monoculture would be a good thing, provided reasonable differences can
> be accommodated.
Can't help remembering Randall Munroe's take on such things:
https://xkcd.com/927/
I agree that the Far Eastern systems that can't easily be replaced
by Unicode are that way mostly because they're a mess. But I'm
still of the opinion that locking ourselves into Unicode is a choice
we might regret, far down the road.
regards, tom lane