On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Michael Snoyman <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > I don't think *anyone* is asserting that UTF-16 is a common encoding
> > for files anywhere,
>
> *ahem*
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16/UCS-2#Use_in_major_operating_systems_and_environments
>
> I was talking about the contents of the files, not the file names or how
the system calls work. I know at least on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, if you
open up the default text editor, type in a few letters and hit save, the
file will not be in UTF-16.

Michael
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