H. Peter Anvin wrote:
I think it's more than that. They're deeply (and I mean
*deeply*) in
denial that UTF-16 isn't a 16-bit fixed-length character set, because
they set up *so much* around it.
That (that they're using UTF-16 the way they should be using UTF-32) is
really another issue (which has sadly spread to other stuff, e.g. Java and
Qt). Their "Not Invented Here" attitude towards UTF-8 is the bigger issue.
Kevin Kofler