[galacticpony]

You're being completely disingenuous here.

Nothing is competing with HTML on being what HTML is. Nothing is even close.

All text encodings in common use build on top of ANSI. The de-facto standard (now) is UTF-8 and there's no reason to change that.

IP really does move all the data around the entire internet (that's kind of in the name right there!).

Yes, there are variations, extensions and incompatibilities, but these things are not being re-invented all the time, exactly because these things are ubiquitous standards.