Christopher OwenUTF-8 should be on the Sid Meier’s Civilization tech tree
ofc part of the magic is the fact that it is compatible with ASCII so maybe and sadly that might need to be a pre-requisite
Ben Zanin@oysta tech tree that allows you to develop EBCDIC instead of ASCII and instantly ends the game if you do
Patai Gergely 
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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦
john spurling
The Orange Theme@oysta Requires the invention of diners and New Jersey first!
pfriedma
groxx
Theo
Bernie the Wordsmith@oysta Right before the rocket
AN/CRM-114@oysta You have completed Wonder: ZALGO
TomAoki@oysta
UTF-8 is one of the transmission form of Unicode, and for CJK writers, Unicode has a fatal problem in its standard itself, han unification.
At least some of CJK characters are missingly treated as the same character and allocated to the same code point just "it's lookalike".
And at least different gryphs of the same character cannot be distinguished. This should have same "base" code point with different selector in character code itself. This already harms on family registers in Japan (no perfect character code schemes yet!).
More, some of properly unified character (same meaning) has different gryphs per language, so on any softwares handling plain texts, a text file containing multiple CJK languages cannot be rendered. So selector for languages is mandatory in character code scheme itself.
But unfortunately there's no proper character code scheme yet, and Unicode with UTF-8 is the only character encoding that can be an alterntative for future proper one and widely used.
UTF-8 is one of the transmission form of Unicode, and for CJK writers, Unicode has a fatal problem in its standard itself, han unification.
At least some of CJK characters are missingly treated as the same character and allocated to the same code point just "it's lookalike".
And at least different gryphs of the same character cannot be distinguished. This should have same "base" code point with different selector in character code itself. This already harms on family registers in Japan (no perfect character code schemes yet!).
More, some of properly unified character (same meaning) has different gryphs per language, so on any softwares handling plain texts, a text file containing multiple CJK languages cannot be rendered. So selector for languages is mandatory in character code scheme itself.
But unfortunately there's no proper character code scheme yet, and Unicode with UTF-8 is the only character encoding that can be an alterntative for future proper one and widely used.
Mark A. Rayner