There is no way to fix this mess without breaking old characters. And if they don't break anything, then they didn't fix anything.
If you switch 'fix' with 'change', this also describes youtube
With the difference that youtube didn't need change.. but got it anyway. (I absolutely hate their new 720p encoder, it's a blurry blocky mess)
Yeah, and everyone complains about the comments, but youtube also changed the automatic encoding of videos. If you upload at 1080p the 720p version will now look like crap :/