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Windows chooses to use UTF-16 rather than UTF-8, but is it really that much of a concern?
by apaprocki 14y ago
Windows chooses to use UTF-16 rather than UTF-8, but is it really that much of a concern?
- plorkyeran 14y agoIt makes writing portable code a pain; either you have to use different string types on different platforms or do a bunch of converting between utf-8 and utf-16. Many libraries support only narrow strings, so even in a Windows-only application you often end up having to convert between utf-8 and utf-16 quite a bit.