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Because industry standards

Words cannot describe my hate for problems caused by character encoding.

>Soenderjysk
Hahaha.

>>8698866
Just use ASCII. ASCII was perfect. Everything else is a stupid hack (though I'll admit "shift" character encodings are quite clever). Unicode and UTF-8 were good ideas but all the characters you need are in ASCII.

Didn't Rob Pike or whoever come up with UTF-8 in like an hour over lunch? He wrote the system on napkins. Or was that just an urban legend?

I like the idea that a couple of bored programmers can succeed in a few hours/days where big corporations have failed for years.

>>8698873
Guess you didn't know that UTF-8 is backwards-compatible with ASCII, and also that you're retarded.

>>8698873

>>8698886
Of course I do, faggot. Pretty much all character encodings are. What do you think the first non-ASCII character encodings were? They just used the eighth bit to add extra characters.

>>8698896
The difference is that UTF-8 along with a couple of others is designed to cover all possible characters, so locale-specific encodings should've died out years ago.

>>8698863 is correct. SJIS is used because it is, as its name implies, the Japanese industry standard. It's also easier to decode than UTF-8 and many Japanese phones don't implement Unicode.

Not using sage because the front page is shit as usual.

Blame MS. Windows 9x didn't support Unicode.

>>8701525
This.

Also, the Japanese hate technological progress. It's going to take a goddamn decade before this shit dies.

>>8698850
> plan 9

Pretentious.