Larry a year ago on Unicode

: For the near future I only see a chaotic dance around the UTF-8
: strange attractor, in part because a lot of butterflies are flapping
: their wings near the UTF-16 attractor instead.  We're going to live in
: interesting times, whether or not that's an ancient Chinese curse.

http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1999-11/msg00865.html

(The thread originally began on cross-platforms line terminators and
 after that line disciplines were discussed, which brought up Unicode)

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        # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
        # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen

• Larry a year ago on Unicode by Jarkko Hietaniemi