First Impressions!

[A Guy With a Question]

On Thursday, 30 November 2017 at 11:41:09 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 11/30/2017 2:47 AM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
>>> As far as I can tell, pretty much the only users of UTF16 are 
>>> Windows programs. Everyone else uses UTF8 or UCS32.
>> I assume you meant UTF32 not UCS32, given UCS2 is Microsoft's 
>> half-assed UTF16.
>
> I meant UCS-4, which is identical to UTF-32. It's hard keeping 
> all that stuff straight. Sigh.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-32

It's also worth mentioning that the more I think about it, the 
UTF8 vs. UTF16 thing was probably not worth mentioning with the 
rest of the things I listed out. It's pretty minor and more of a 
preference.