I've seen a trend from those languages and APIs of hiding UTF-16 away. They have to interoperate with everything else using just UTF8, while the rest of the wor

I've seen a trend from those languages and APIs of hiding UTF-16 away. They have to interoperate with everything else using just UTF8, while the rest of the world doesn't give a half damn about UTF-16 (the fact you have to also take endianess into account I think was one of the biggest crippling blows 16 bit encoding had ever received)