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That's how we ended up with UTF-16, the abomination from Microsoft. UTF-8 or bust.
by selfhoster11 5y ago
That's how we ended up with UTF-16, the abomination from Microsoft. UTF-8 or bust.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoMicrosoft did not invent UTF-16 (which in fact is just a retcon of UCS2), they were just early adopters of Unicode and UTF-8 didn't exist yet.
- selfhoster11 5y agoThey might not have invented it, but they popularised it. UTF-16 would be dead and a footnote in history if it hadn't been for Microsoft's adoption of it.
- fomine3 5y agoUTF-8 is appeared a bit late at the time Unicode being adopted initially. So WinNT and other projects like Java also adopts UCS-2.