For the record --
On 2006.3.14, at 08:35 AM, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
If i recall correctly utf-8 is an effort of making a uniform way of
representing English and Non-English as well . I don't have the
slightest idea whether it is a standard yet or not .
http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html
UTF-8 was at one time just a way to squeeze up to 36-bit wide encodings
into an 8 bit wide stream without causing as few issues as possible
with mis-interpreting existing characters like backslash and such. The
Unicode Consortium has claimed it now.
