Me, young programmer: "UTF-8 makes no damn sense."
Me, graying beard: "Wow, this is such a clever solution, really. I'd be curious to hear the set of events and kludges that lead to this."
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UTF-8 is pretty damn cool once the logic of it all really sinks in. It's a clever method to encode text in such a way that you end up using as few bytes as possible to encode characters.