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Seems obvious, ASCII had an unused bit, so you use it. Why did they even bother with UTF-16 and -32 then?
by frollogaston 1y ago
Seems obvious, ASCII had an unused bit, so you use it. Why did they even bother with UTF-16 and -32 then?
- int_19h 1y agoBecause the original design assumed that 16 bits are enough to encode everything worth encoding, hence UCS2 (not UTF-16, yet) being the easiest and most straightforward way to represent things.
- frollogaston 1y agoAh ok. Well even then, you end up spending 16 bits for every ASCII character.