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Citation needed: Tagged for verification / clarification that 8-bit encoding is now the dominant or at least majority standard.

Re: This phrase from the Introduction, "While 8-bit is the de facto standard as of 2016"

Wouldn't external verification be need of when this change was recognized and generally accepted, i.e. not just when 8-bit encoding became available, but when it became the predominant encoding.

For example, when did email generally stop requiring 7-bit encoding compatiability? Is it not still the generally prevelant practice to assue that many email systems still trip over this?

Having said that, some email providers advertise 8-bit encoding, but to what extent do they guarantee that to work? If someone using such a system sends and receives a quoted reply (or vice versa) from another user from a 7-bit limited system is the 8-bit email provider able to reasonably ensure a full loop rount trip conversion such that both systems are able to interoperate without artifacts. Such a feat would require 8-bit transmission, client/server stack, and 8-bit aware data encoding and/or conversion of prior formats if required.

In theory this is now possible, but where is the reference that it has actually been widely implemented and actually works?

Then again, email is just one system. It may seem obvious that the web was born in an 8-bit world, but again citations needed:

• Were most/all early web adoptations 8-bit, if not when did most/all in use become 8-bit?
• When did web browsing take over from email as the killer app?

Tree4rest (talk) 20:37, 3 October 2019 (UTC)