UTF8 is only superior in encoding the american keyboard (7 bits of ascii). All the latin letters map to 1 byte encodings. This is why UTF8 wasn't universally hailed to begin with.
Countries like Japan had already solved encoding differently while US was still using ASCII. (See JIS encoding).
As time passed tho, the byte savings matter less. Also combined with transfer compression makes the encoding size differences negligible.
Countries like Japan had already solved encoding differently while US was still using ASCII. (See JIS encoding).
As time passed tho, the byte savings matter less. Also combined with transfer compression makes the encoding size differences negligible.