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selfhoster11
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Life Before Unicode
They might not have invented it, but they popularised it. UTF-16 would be dead and a footnote in history if it hadn't been for Microsoft's adoption of it.
fomine3
on Aug 25, 2021
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UTF-8 is appeared a bit late at the time Unicode being adopted initially. So WinNT and other projects like Java also adopts UCS-2.
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