Sean Leather wrote:
> Which one do you use for strings in HTML or XML in which UTF-8 has become
> the commonly accepted standard encoding?

UTF-8 is only becoming the standard for non-CJK languages.
We are told by members of our community in CJK countries
that UTF-8 is not widely adopted there, and there is no sign that
it ever will be. And one should be aware that the proportion of
CJK in global Internet traffic is growing quickly.

So then, what is the standard? Being not familiar with this area, I googled a bit, and I don't see a consensus. But I also noticeably don't see UTF-16. So, if this is the case, then a similar question still arises for CJK text: What format/library to use for it (assuming one doesn't want a performance penalty for translating between Data.Text's internal format and the target format)? It appears that there are no ideal answers to such questions.

Regards,
Sean