On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 03:37:26 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: > Be aware Microsoft is alone in thinking that UTF-16 was > awesome. Everybody else standardized on UTF-8 for Unicode. UCS2 was awesome. UTF-16 is used by Java, JavaScript, Objective-C, Swift, Dart and ms tech, which is 28% of tiobe index.