Why Unicode Won’t Work on the Internet (2001)
This article was written before UTF-8 became the de-facto standard.  According to Wikipedia, UTF-8 encodes each of the 1,112,064 valid code points.  Much more than Goundry&#x27;s (the author&#x27;s) 170,000.  Goundry&#x27;s only complaint against UTF-8 is that at the time, it was one of three possible encoding formats that might work.  Since it has now been widely embraced, the complaint is no longer valid.<p>In short, Unicode will work just fine on the internet in 2016 as far as encoding all the characters goes.  Problems having to do with how ordinal numbers are used, right-to-left languages, upper-case&#x2F;lower-case anomalies, different glyphs being used for the same letter depending on the letter&#x27;s position in the word (and many other realities of language and script differences) all need to be in the forefront of a developer&#x27;s mind when trying to build a multi-lingual site.