It's not the API that's broken, that uses UTF-16 consistently which qualifies as Unicode by any definition. The problem really only lies in file and console en

It's not the API that's broken, that uses UTF-16 consistently which qualifies as Unicode by any definition. The problem really only lies in file and console encoding. If they'd simply give you the option between legacy code pages and UTF-8, and made UTF-8 the default, life would be grand.