> On 12 May 2015, at 16:50, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
>> Indeed, that is why UTF-8 was invented for use in Unix-like environments.
>>
> Not the main reason: communication protocols, and data storage is also based on 8-bit code units (even if storage group them by much larger blocks).
There is some history here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#History
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