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[โ€“] Korne127@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, in such a situation you should always try to compare the standards, look at the userbases and suddenly there are only very few that actually make sense. If everyone just does this, one standard will eventually crystalise as the one to use (or at least depending on the situation). Character encoding is an interesting example, because nowadays (almost) everything just uses UTF-8, despite there having been many.

[โ€“] xthexder@l.sw0.com 4 points 1 year ago

UTF-8 is absolutely magical in how it's backwards compatible with ASCII. Windows still uses UTF-16 which makes supporting Unicode filenames and stuff a huge pain compared to linux. At least pretty much the entire web is UTF-8.