>>Line breaks meaning paragraph separations or line breaks meaning, well, whatever it is that PG means by line breaks?

Don>Would we change what we're doing now?

Only if PG intended to rejoin the rest of the world.

>>“uft-8” meaning that “we” use the interpretation of the code points as defined by Unicode, or meaning “we” invent our own meanings for those code points? 

Don>Would you seriously consider defining your own?

PG already has redefined its own meaning for already-defined utf-8 code points, but PG “lifers” are so ingrained in smelling their own flower garden to even notice this.