On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 09:42:19AM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 05/04/18 02:09, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:Try UTF-16, what Microsoft (and a couple of years ago Apple) love to call "Unicode": in more "Western" contexts every second byte is NULL!The Java platform uses UTF-16 internally:
Yes, many people thought UCS-2 was the answer back when 16 bits was enough for anybody.
Mike Stone