On 06/08/2010 03:12 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Nick Sabalausky"<[email protected]> wrote in message
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"Ruslan Nikolaev"<[email protected]> wrote in message
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In addition, C# has been released already when UTF-16 became variable
length.
Right, like I said, C#/.NET use UTF-16 because that's what MS had already
standardized on.
s/UTF-16/16-bit/ It's getting late and I'm starting to mix terminology...
s/16-bit/UCS-2/
The story is that Windows standardized on UCS-2, which is the uniform
16-bit-per-character encoding that predates UTF-16. When UCS-2 turned
out to be insufficient, it was extended to the variable-length UTF-16.
As has been discussed, that has been quite unpleasant because a lot of
code out there handles strings as if they were UCS-2.
Andrei
