Why has unicode become the standard way of converting binary to text?

The standard for internal text coding system is called Unicode (Encoding, representation and handling text). Nearly every operating system uses this. The basic reason for choosing Unicode for converting binary to text is because this is compatible with almost every language in the world making it popular. Although there are other ways to do this, Unicode stays popular of all.

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