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Why did utf 8 replace the sac character encoding standard

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UTF-8- is a variable width character encoding capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid code points in Unicode using one to four 8-bit bytes. The encoding is defined by the Unicode standard. The sac character encoding method was addressed to simplify the symbolism of letter and symbols.As the computers grew in capacity UTF-8 method was implemented to optimize such protocol allowing more characters to be included with an expanded string of possibilities
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