> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 16:09:33 +0100 > From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> > > > > 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. > > It shouldn't. UTF-16 works just like UTF-8, except that the code units > are bigger.
Not really, since UTF-8 doesn't have surrogates.