whatATimeToBeAlive

[text] Introducing UTFRandom Making Unicode Fair UTFQANDOM UTF8 for a connected world. Geneva Switzerland Unicode revolutionized the written word but it has one downside It favors Roman languages by making the byte string representation of other scripts Cyrillic Greek Asian scripts longer than necessary. To address this issue a team of linguists and computer scientists has developed UTFRandom. The key innovation is the use of a probabilistic algorithm devrandom that assigns a bit field to every newly created text file. Early tests have shown promising results. For example a Cyrillic character that previously required three bytes in UTF 8 encoding can now be represented with fewer bytes 33.33 of the time repeating of course.