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can read and write UTF-8, and this results in fewer internationalization issues than any alternative text encoding.

UTF-8 is dominant for all countries/languages on the internet, is used in most standards, often the only allowed encoding, and is supported by all modern operating systems and programming languages.

History

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) set out to compose a universal multi-byte character set in 1989. The

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