> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 00:23:40 +0100 > From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> > > On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 17:17:10 +0000 > Andre Schappo via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > > > So, I consider it important to familiarise students with SMP > > characters as well as BMP characters. Then when they develop software > > they will, at the start, be thinking beyond ASCII and Unicode BMP > > characters. > > Just steer them away from UTF-16!
Which will leave them entirely unprepared for the MS-Windows Unicode programming, something they of course will never need in their careers.