It's too bad the article neglects to mention GB18030.
The PRC has mandated the use of the GB18030 character set, and for arguably valid reasons. The largest online userbase in the world is not and "edge case". It's true that GB18030 can be transformed to UTF-8 via a look-up table, but that's true of pretty much any unicode superset.
The PRC has mandated the use of the GB18030 character set, and for arguably valid reasons. The largest online userbase in the world is not and "edge case". It's true that GB18030 can be transformed to UTF-8 via a look-up table, but that's true of pretty much any unicode superset.