God made ASCII. And made it so that one English letter was one byte. And He saw that it was good and even had room for European Romance language characters.

Then the Devil tempted us. “One lousy byte? What kind of Glory is this?! Look! Two bytes! You shall have all that God denies you!”

And the avarice of Men prevailed and insidious heathen languages perverted Our Internet, with unintelligible scrawls that drive men mad, or even worse – glyphs that do not render at all on a Holy Blessed VT100