On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 10:38:09 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
IIRC, Andrei talked in TDPL about how Java's choice to go with UTF-16 was worse than the choice to go with UTF-8, because it was correct in many more cases
UTF-16 was a migration from UCS-2, and UCS-2 was superior at the time.
