On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il>wrote:
> > Qt appears to use internally UTF-16. What major free software C library > actually prefer UTF-8? > Are you talking about the internal representation, or the external interface? The internal representation is in many cases UTF-16. Indeed, except of golang, and so it seems perl, I can't think of any other language open source or not, that has UTF-8 as internal representation. That said, the internal representation should not be exposed to anyone, so it shouldn't really matter to anyone you're using ISO-5589-1 internally, as long as they don't have to convert their text to that arcane format. However, if you look around, a lot of text files, documentation, HTML files, open network wire formats (eg, json) are using UTF-8 as their text encoding format. So in this sense, I think it's a de facto standard.
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