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by Netch
615 days ago
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> There’s no excuse. Until mid-2000s there was no certainty Unicode will eventually defeat competitors. In real it havenʼt fully yet - GB2312 and Tron are still locally prevailing, and IBM still jogs with EBCDIC. But at its early times nobody was reasonably sure, and Java attempt could have failed as well. (More so Java approach for UCS-2 was wrong - already commented nearby.) |
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