Tell that to the Python community where switch to UTF8 was/is a huge battle! Swift is meant to be retro compatible with Obj-C and all. As someone pointed out w

Tell that to the Python community where switch to UTF8 was/is a huge battle! Swift is meant to be retro compatible with Obj-C and all. As someone pointed out windows in the meantime have basically no announced battle plan to transition out of UTF16. I this game latecomer were rewarded because they started with UTF8 or switched from ASCI. But innovators actually tried UTF16 in the mean time an now have to do the job twice in a retro-compatible manner.