"Frank Slootweg" wrote

| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Origin_and_development
|
| "The first 256 code points were made identical to the content of
| ISO-8859-1 so as to make it trivial to convert existing western text."
|
| Here it says 'code points', not 'character encodings'. The use of the
| term 'code points' made me realize that it talks about something else
| than I thought it was talking about.
|

It's still confusing, isn't it? The code points following
127 in UTF-8 are not "trivial" no matter how they figure it.
Once it gets into needing 2+ bytes to create one
character one needs to have some kind of extra step
to do that.