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When is it beneficial to not use utf-8? [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Should character encodings besides UTF-8 (and maybe UTF-16/UTF-32) be deprecated? (8 answers) Closed 10 years ago. When is it beneficial to use encodings other than UTF-8? Aside from dealing with pre-unicode documents, that is. And more importantly, why isn’t UTF-8 the default in most languages? That is, why do […]