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Re:Booting to Rust by forgottenpass on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @02:07PM (#6763545)
Plus technically Java does not use UTF-16, it's UCS2.

Well then I've got good news! EFI, too, also means UCS2 when it says UTF-16 in the spec.

Re:Booting to Rust by Pxtl on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @03:00PM (#6763986)
... I've come to assume that anybody who says they're doing UTF-16 actually means UCS2 with the wrong endianness and just wanted the easiest way to support Chinese characters.
Re:Booting to Rust by masklinn on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @02:24PM (#6763696)
Well I guess if it's going to be garbage anyway you might as well go whole-hog and ensure nothing is salvageable.