Hello, I am an employer, please don't tell me what skill I am looking for in an interview. If I wanted to know how good you are at learning new things quickly,

Hello, I am an employer, please don't tell me what skill I am looking for in an interview. If I wanted to know how good you are at learning new things quickly, I would ask questions like "what's on your list of cool things to pick up in the next year or two?" or "what's something interesting you found out working on project X?" or "what do you think about new thing Y, where Y is related to thing Z you know about?" (And I do.) If I asked you a question about manipulating Unicode, I am so obviously not looking to find out how quickly you learn things, and you know perfectly well I'm not. I'm finding out what you know about character encoding and string manipulation! (Regarding your addendum, if you're actually honest about it in the interview I don't really take any issue with it. But I hope you would be honest about it before an interviewer has to ask you whether you cheated.)