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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by grishka on Thursday November 11, 2021 @01:29PM (#29191264)
> since Windows is the only major OS that made the unfortunate choice of having the base character type 16 bits wide

Apple OSes use something they call "unichar" inside NSStrings. I'm not 100% sure what it is, but it feels like it's the same 16-bit wide character.

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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by ziml77 on Thursday November 11, 2021 @03:20PM (#29192639)
It's possible! It seemed like a sensible choice back in the early 90s when the answer to making a system for global use was UCS-2. I know Java was another one that went with that decision.
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