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Why should it use 8?

@SteffTek since it's the most common encoding used everywhere?

@bigworld12 and what disadvantage do you have if windows and Ms are using it?

@SteffTek not really since most apps can adapt to different encodings, but it becomes a pain in the ass when you are doing pure tcp networking sometimes and you are expecting a utf 8 encoding for the files but then receive utf 16

@SteffTek because it’s 8 bits shorter? ;)

@SteffTek considering that most digital texts use the Latin alphabet: it saves space

@maushax because that's exactly the problem: it's only a fixed 7 bits wide. that's not nearly enough to encode every symbol in every language

@maushax
Because latin alphabet ≠ English

@humblegeek dude, you gotta read more careful

I never said that UTF-8 was a fixed 7-bit encoding, i was talking about ASCII and took that as an argument against it (which you actually should have been able to figure out by context)

I know how UTF-8 works, implemented it a couple of times already