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On the plus side, because Unix was so ASCII-based, it couldn't easily make the jump to UCS-2/wchar_t. I suspect this was ultimately the motivation that led to
by cryptonector 5y ago
On the plus side, because Unix was so ASCII-based, it couldn't easily make the jump to UCS-2/wchar_t. I suspect this was ultimately the motivation that led to UTF-8 (both, IBM's first attempt and Rob Pike's winner). Being late to the game sometimes means you're more prepared.