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UTF-8 may be invented 31 years ago. But it was widely used until recently. I don't remember when the switch happened, but I think it was widely adopted sometime
by ezoe 3y ago
UTF-8 may be invented 31 years ago. But it was widely used until recently. I don't remember when the switch happened, but I think it was widely adopted sometime in middle of 2000s to late 2000s. GNU/Linux distro changed their default locale to UTF-8 and Web sites starting to use it.
- bawolff 3y agoThis graph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unicode_Web_growth.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unicode_Web_growth.svg suggests 2008 is when UTF-8 ate the world. That's still 15 years ago. However it should be noted, that the encoding that UTF-8 was replacing was largely (not exclusively) iso-8859-1 which probably had the characters we are talking about.