TEI Japanese HTML character encoding

Is there any longer a good reason for funded text initiatives on the web NOT to be UTF-8 Unicode ?

TEI at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/frames/index/hyaku3euc.html#euc2 has a Japanese poetry page with a click-driven "swiping frames" metaphor - one of which is a view showing the kanji for haiku, waka or tanka in the char-encoding CHARSET=x-euc-jp 

Oi vey!

CHARSET=x-euc-jp ?!? No, not HTML from a server in Kyoto. The server is in VA. In collaboration with academics in PA.

There is an  anti-pattern  documented for this IT phenomenon in projects within organizations exempt from accountability and competitive pressure or managerial consequences ( and perhaps 2 or more anti-patterns specific to this web design and its survival on this academic web site.)

Ah, the peaceful, never over-loaded servers of  e-text  initiatives in academe ! Concurrent user load ? Not a worry.

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Masaoka Shiki summer kigo haiku 1896

Here is a screenshot of my Curl applet with over one thousand summer kigo (季語)  haiku {俳句} of Japanese poet Masaoka Shiki ( 正岡 子規 ) from the year 1896, early in his mature period.

The applet has a scrolling tree kigo index, FIND and COPY. The applet in intended as an aid for recognizing kanji through reading haiku.

All kanji habe been converted from SH-JIS to utf-8.

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