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Just some specific dates. Microsoft Office was released in 1989 [1], and came out on the Mac before it was ported to Windows. UTF-8 was designed in 1992, on a
by peterburkimsher 7y ago
Just some specific dates.
Microsoft Office was released in 1989 [1], and came out on the Mac before it was ported to Windows.
UTF-8 was designed in 1992, on a placemat [2]. It has been dominant on the web [3] since 2009, which seems like ages ago now, but is really quite recent.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office
[2] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#/media/File:Utf8webgrowth.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#/media/File:Utf8webgrowt...
- mkozlows 7y agoThat's a misleading date for UTF-dominance -- as the link notes, it's counting things as ASCII if they only have ASCII characters, no matter what the encoding was specified as, and ASCII is a subset of UTF-8. I'd put UTF-8's real prominence with the popularity of XML (where it was the default encoding). That was specified in 1998, and ubiquitous within a few years. Nobody at the height of XML would have tried doing a non-UTF design for anything.
- db48x 7y agoXML is almost UTF-8, but some characters were disallowed in XML 1.0, and it wasn't fixed until later. This still causes bugs where I work, here in 2019.
- caf 7y agoMicrosoft Office was initially just a bundle of separate programs, the constituent applications are even older (though Excel still debuted on the Mac first, in 1985).
- forgotmypw 7y agoMy Windows ME with IE 5.5 supports UTF-8.