They chose a standard. So its 8.
It is for historical reasons A tab in a terminal is 8 characters It is the same reason why lines are width limited, it is the width of a standard terminal
can't i set tab to any variable character?
one tab space had been 8 space wide
Why don't you read what you linked?
Character Mapping?
i tried but i am not able understand
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