Chris Jones wrote:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:35:11PM EDT, Nobody wrote:

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Characters outside the 16-bit range aren't supported on all builds.
They won't be supported on most Windows builds, as Windows uses 16-bit
Unicode extensively:

I knew nothing about UTF-16 & friends before this thread.

Best part of Unicode is that there are multiple encodings, right? ;-)

No, the best part about Unicode is there is no encoding!

Unicode does not define any encoding; what it defines is code-points for characters which is not related to how characters are encoded in files or network transmission.
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