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Re:How UTF-8 Works by mark-r on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @12:59PM (#30261921)
When Windows adopted Unicode, I think the only encoding available was UCS-2. They converted pretty quickly to UTF-16 though, and I think the same is true of everybody else who started with UCS-2. Unfortunately UTF-16 has its own set of hassles.
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Re:How UTF-8 Works by account42 on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @06:17AM (#30271396)
Technically, they converted to WTF-16 [0] since many places, including filenames, allow you to use unpaired surrogates.

[0] https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/

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