Why do people still widely use single-byte encodings in MP3 metadata?

Question

Character encoding

Maybe a rhetorical question, but I really never cease to be surprised. There must be some rational reason why Unicode is not moving forward on this front. If I remember correctly, the ability to use Unicode in "tags" appeared a long time ago, and many people seemed to start trying to use it (especially Linux users, who were tired of the confrontation between ANSI and KOI-8 and wanted files that could be read normally everywhere). More than 10 years have passed, I download fresh author's distributions from rutracker, open in foobar2000 on a computer tuned to the Central European way (this does not interfere with normal modern programs and formats) and indulge in nostalgia looking at "kryakozyabr" to the music ...

Answer 1

Users fail to identify a fatal flaw. It's the programmers who get paid for the code, and the "authors" don't give a damn about it. Works fine.

Answer 2

Why do people still use foobar2000
there's an ace player that plays torrents on the fly