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> "Unicode" is not an encoding. It's important to point out that "Unicode" in Windows is an encoding. It means specifically UTF-16 LE, many people like me lear
by est 11y ago
> "Unicode" is not an encoding.
It's important to point out that "Unicode" in Windows is an encoding. It means specifically UTF-16 LE, many people like me learned
the concept "Unicode" on Windows got confused to hell when learning Python.
- mark-r 11y agoMicrosoft - I don't know whether to hate on them or pity them. They were an early adopter of Unicode, back when there was only one encoding that probably didn't even have a name yet (UCS-2). It's easy to see how they would unleash that confusing nomenclature on the world, but they should have made an attempt to clear it up when other encodings became available, and they didn't.