> Although the standard does state that Strings with textual data are supposed to be UTF-16. No, it doesn't. It states that they're UTF-16 code units, a term d

> Although the standard does state that Strings with textual data are supposed to be UTF-16. No, it doesn't. It states that they're UTF-16 code units, a term defined in Unicode (see D77; essentially an unsigned 16-bit integer), which is not the same as UTF-16. A sequence of 16-bit code units can therefore include lone surrogates, which something encoded in UTF-16 could not.