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jcranmeryesterday at 3:20 PM1 replyview on HN

Most internet protocols these days have shifted to UTF-8.


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tostitoday at 12:20 AM

Perhaps so, and that's a good development imho. However, the most notorious of all, HTTP, has not afaik. Different encodings have been suggested including UTF-8. I'm not entirely sure why those proposals weren't implemented, but the dot-com bubble at the time might've had something to do with it.