Indeed. I should have written something more like "in places Windows appears to accept UTF-16". But there is certainly a little truth to it: if you pass a surro

Indeed. I should have written something more like "in places Windows appears to accept UTF-16". But there is certainly a little truth to it: if you pass a surrogate pair to e.g. the text of a Windows label using an appropriate Unicode font, I believe it will show its UTF-16 interpretation.