On 13 Feb 2021 at 15:48:48 GMT, "Mayayana"  wrote:

>   UTF-8 provided a smooth, easy, solution. It accommodates
> the millions of pages and files that are still essentially ASCII.
> Unlike with unicode 16 or 32, we don't have to add a null byte
> to every character in order to encode it.
>   UTF-8 allows ANSI character sets to still be used. But it also
> provides a way to fully support multi-byte characters only
> where necessary. It's the one solution to support all languages
> without changing the default of 1 character to 1 byte.

It's only a default for ASCII, and the characters that ASCII supports. And
when you say it allows ANSI character sets to be used, I take it you mean the
characters that different ANSI pages supported, which under UTF-8 will most
likely be 2-byte chars, rather than 1-byte but 8-bit values.

--
Tim

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