Pretty sure the dominance of ASCII on the internet and the efficieny/compatability of UTF-8 in relation to ASCII paved the way for UTF-8 everywhere. It is the s

Pretty sure the dominance of ASCII on the internet and the efficieny/compatability of UTF-8 in relation to ASCII paved the way for UTF-8 everywhere. It is the standard unicode encoding of the internet. If anything, I would say the UTF-8 paved the way for emojis, not the other way around as the ubiquity of a unicode encoding allowed for the existence of emojis. Can't encode emojies with ASCII. You have to have unicode and its encoding first before you can have emojis.