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		fhars on Feb 8, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UTF-8 good, UTF-16 bad You should very much care about that, because if your tool stores text as UCS-2, it means that it doesn't support unicode at all, UCS-2 stopped being a valid encoding a long time ago.

Locke1689 on Feb 8, 2011 [–]

As the parent noted, it can be compiled for UTF-32 support. Just recompile if you need the extra characters.

Edit: Also, turns out it's UTF-16. The configure flag is named ucs2.

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