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Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files


From: Ralph Corderoy
Subject: Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 13:39:57 +0100

Hi John,

> What's the rationale for choosing UTF-16 in the first place?

History.  Microsoft plumped for UCS-2, both UCS-2BE and UCS-2LE I think.
That's a fixed width;  two bytes per rune.  When that became
insufficient, UTF-16 was a backwards-compatible upgrade AIUI.

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Cheers, Ralph.
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