Two things I forgot to add:
Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:52:04 -0700, Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com> pisze:
>>IMHO Unicode would have been a better standard if UTF-16
>>hadn't existed.
>
> Decidedly not. In fact, Unicode would not be widely implemented today.
It's much simpler to migrate from byte encodings to UTF-8 than to
UTF-16, including both internal processing and external formats.
> Unicode limited to UTF-8 and UTF-32 would be a lot less attractive
> and you would not have seen it implemented in Windows, Office
> and other high volume platforms as early and as widespread as it
> has been.
They should have used UTF-8 in files and either UTF-8 or UTF-32 in API.
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