> On 12 May 2015, at 16:50, Philippe Verdy <verd...@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
