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UCS-2 uses a fixed number of (16-bit) code units to represent a Unicode scalar value (code point). Of course, to represent a grapheme cluster, more than one cod

• a1369209993 6y ago
  > that's true of Unicode in general. Yes, that was rather my point: if you're using a Unicode-based character encoding, you're going to have variable-width characters regardless, so you might as well use UTF-8. > UCS-2 uses a fixed number of (16-bit) code units to represent a Unicode scalar value (code point). Sure, but that's a implementaion detail of the mapping from characters (at the application level) to bytes (at the physical(-ish) representation level).