ref: https://github.com/prometheus/proposals/blob/main/proposals/2023-08-21-utf8.md Some changes are needed in this library to support the utf8 proposal: - [x] openmetrics_create needs to understand and construct new syntax (POC exists) https://github.com/prometheus/common/pull/537 - [x] library needs to support either legacy mode or utf8 mode, with a way to check for either as well. https://github.com/prometheus/common/pull/537 - [x] #554 - [x] https://github.com/ywwg/common/pull/2 More tasks will be added as code comes together.