James Porter wrote:
On 9/27/07, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms@cmu.edu> wrote:
UCS-2 is bogus and should not be used at all. Conceivably UCS-4 is legitimate but in practice not likely to be used by anyone. Still, it is probably important to support it.
Are there any situations where UCS-2 is actually needed (deprecated libraries, for instance)? If not, then I agree that we can eliminate it.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCS-2 Symbian OS used in Nokia S60 handsets and Sony Ericsson UIQ handsets uses UCS-2. Older Windows NT systems (prior to Windows 2000) only support UCS-2. The Python language environment has used UCS-2 internally since version 2.1, although newer versions can use UCS-4 to store supplementary characters (instead of UTF-16). - Michael Marcin