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UTF-16 was never intended to be a fixed-width encoding and has been created in order to support characters outside the BMP which aren't covered by UCS-2.
by program 16y ago
UTF-16 was never intended to be a fixed-width encoding and has been created in order to support characters outside the BMP which aren't covered by UCS-2.
- edsrzf 16y agoOkay, you're right. I shortened what I was trying to say too much. UTF-16 evolved from UCS-2, so its roots are in a 16-bit, fixed-width encoding.