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		program on Feb 8, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UTF-8 good, UTF-16 bad UTF-16 was never intended to be a fixed-width encoding and has been created in order to support characters outside the BMP which aren't covered by UCS-2.

edsrzf on Feb 8, 2011 [–]

Okay, you're right. I shortened what I was trying to say too much. UTF-16 evolved from UCS-2, so its roots are in a 16-bit, fixed-width encoding.

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