The Case Against Autodecode

[ag0aep6g via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/01/2016 12:47 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> But I didn't know which encoding would win - UTF-8, UTF-16, or UCS-2, so
> D bet on all three. If I had a do-over, I'd just support UTF-8. UTF-16
> is useful pretty much only as a transitional encoding to talk with
> Windows APIs. Nobody uses UCS-2 (it consumes far too much memory).

Wikipedia says [1] that UCS-2 is essentially UTF-16 without surrogate 
pairs. I suppose you mean UTF-32/UCS-4.


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16