RE: UTF-8 <> UCS-2/UTF-16 conversion for library use

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Sep 24 2001 - 15:07:13 EDT

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At 13:59 -0500 2001-09-24, Ayers, Mike wrote:
>It seems that some people are arguing that UTF-16 is the ideal
>solution for all computing, and that UTF-8 and UTF-32 exist only for
>network transport.

I tend to think that because I have to make web pages using UTF-8, I
wish that I had better tools to help me do it.

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