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Which widely used programming languages were designed ground-up with Unicode support?
A lot of programming languages have added Unicode support as an afterthought in later versions, but which widely used languages were released with Unicode support from day one?
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C#, Java, Python3, as far as I know, are all Unicode based programming.
The simplest answer is that Unicode covers all of the languages that can be written in the following widely-used scripts: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Thaana, Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhala, Thai, Lao, Tibetan, Myanmar, Georgian, Hangul, ...
This is not surprising considering its many nice properties: It can represent all 1,114,112 Unicode characters. Most C code that deals with strings on a byte-by-byte basis still works, since UTF-8 is fully compatible with 7-bit ASCII.
Python 2 uses str type to store bytes and unicode type to store unicode code points. All strings by default are str type — which is bytes~ And Default encoding is ASCII. So if an incoming file is Cyrillic characters, Python 2 might fail because ASCII will not be able to handle those Cyrillic Characters.
Java was probably the first popular language to have ground-up Unicode support.
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