It probably won't change soon, but Microsoft (or at least some teams in it) have acknowledged the mistake of UTF-8, AND they have taken some steps toward UTF-8:

It probably won't change soon, but Microsoft (or at least some teams in it) have acknowledged the mistake of UTF-8, AND they have taken some steps toward UTF-8: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2023/06/surrogate-pair.html#future-windows-and-python-are-moving-toward-utf-8 http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2023/06/surrogate-pair.html#fut...