FTA: "The traditional store-it-in-two-byte methods are called UCS-2 (because it has two bytes) or UTF-16 (because it has 16 bits), and you still have to figure

FTA: "The traditional store-it-in-two-byte methods are called UCS-2 (because it has two bytes) or UTF-16 (because it has 16 bits), and you still have to figure out if it's high-endian UCS-2 or low-endian UCS-2." Written in 2003, 7 years after UCS-2 was obsoleted by UTF-16 because Unicode 2.0 was too big for just 16 bits. UCS-2 is not UTF-16. Windows NT wasn't UTF-16 either, IIRC. Of course, Microsoft kept telling everyone that 16bits-per-character is Unicode. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16