RE: Why is UTF8 not being taken up in Asia Pacific for Public Web sites?

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Obviously google, being the market leader they are, is one of those
organisations looking for and applying these simplifications.
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for search, it's important to be able to show results in multiple languages
on the same web page.  UTF-8 handles this better than legacy encodings.  i
suspect this is a key part of google's motivation.