Re: rough sketch of a potential solution

Keith Moore <[email protected]>
> I don't know that problem3 is a real problem.  Do users really care what
> the on-the-wire encoding looks like?  If so, why?

For avoiding bugs.

Some things are easier to implement and debug than others. We want the
simplest ones we can get.

That means using a lot of plain text (printf-friendly, debugger-friendly,
programmer-readable, what have you) and established formats/encodings such
as UTF-8, where breakage is both less likely to occur and more likely to
be fixed than for custom inventions.

--Arnt