First Impressions!

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Thursday, 30 November 2017 at 10:19:18 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 11/27/2017 7:01 PM, A Guy With an Opinion wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Sooner or later your code will exhibit bugs if it assumes that 
> char==codepoint with UTF16, because of surrogate pairs.
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5903008/what-is-a-surrogate-pair-in-java
>
> As far as I can tell, pretty much the only users of UTF16 are 
> Windows programs. Everyone else uses UTF8 or UCS32.
>
> I recommend using UTF8.

I assume you meant UTF32 not UCS32, given UCS2 is Microsoft's 
half-assed UTF16.