SCSU and BOCU-1 were never seriously used, as far as I can tell, except to prove a point back when developers were uncertain about implementing Unicode. Unicod

SCSU and BOCU-1 were never seriously used, as far as I can tell, except to prove a point back when developers were uncertain about implementing Unicode. Unicode standardizer: "Your software needs to support more than one language at a time. Please use Unicode." Developer: "I don't want to. I've already got a codepage that's designed for the language I care about, and Unicode will make everything take up too much space." Unicode standardizer: "Here's BOCU-1, an encoding of Unicode that compresses monolingual text into nearly the same amount of space as your favorite codepage." Developer: "Uh, thanks, but that's weird." Unicode standardizer: "Yeah, never mind. How about you try this new encoding called UTF-8?" Developer: "Oh, this works really well and I guess it's small enough. I'll use it."