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When Windows adopted Unicode, I think the only encoding available was UCS-2. They converted pretty quickly to UTF-16 though, and I think the same is true of ev
by mark-r 5y ago
When Windows adopted Unicode, I think the only encoding available was UCS-2. They converted pretty quickly to UTF-16 though, and I think the same is true of everybody else who started with UCS-2. Unfortunately UTF-16 has its own set of hassles.
- account42 5y agoTechnically, they converted to WTF-16 [0] since many places, including filenames, allow you to use unpaired surrogates. [0] https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/ https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/