The problem is, the rest of the world decided to settle on UTF-8. We have some normalization disagreements but it's UTF-8 anyway. Now we have surrogate pairs a

The problem is, the rest of the world decided to settle on UTF-8. We have some normalization disagreements but it's UTF-8 anyway. Now we have surrogate pairs and the IVS, there is no advantage of using UTF-16 at all. I will not surprise the Microsoft someday convert everything including kernel to filesystem to UTF-8 someday... or more likely they lost the market share.