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Unicode is intended to be a universal character set for describing all the characters required for written text incorporating all writing systems, technical symbols and punctuation.

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Why are there multiple Unicode encodings?

On all modern systems, this would essentially mean using three bytes per character, which is three times more than what people were used to, so they were unwilling to adopt Unicode at all. …
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