24 Jan
2011
24 Jan
'11
1:58 a.m.
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:10:10 -0800, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Patrick Horgan <phorgan1@gmail.com> wrote:
On 01/21/2011 09:50 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
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+1 with the caveat that UTF-8 and UTF-32 is considered by many to be the most needed types with UTF-16 considered evil. (Seems to be a Windows/non-Windows split. I like them all;)
IIRC, Oracle supports UTF-8 and UTF-16, so a lot of folks will want UTF-16 for that reason. It isn't just Windows programmers.
FYI: OS/X and iOS both also use UTF-16. Mostafa