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** Understanding Character Encodings: A Historical Perspective 🕰️

Character encodings have a complex history, spanning from ASCII to Unicode. Initially, computers used 7-bit bytes, but the introduction of 8-bit bytes led to conflicts over encoding space. The emergence of code pages and DBCS further complicated language exchange, until Unicode proposed a single system for representing all languages and symbols.

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Source: https://dev.to/brunociccarino/a-historical-perspective-on-character-encodings-3ge0
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