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From: "David Tolpin" <>
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> > How often is UTF-32 actually in use? I would have thought
> > that UTF-16 and UTF-8 are the dominant encodings?
>
> Tim has a good article at ongoing.
>
> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/26/UTF
Very well written.
> I think that choice of utf32 and utf8 is good; utf16 is a disaster,
> unless it is ucs2.
Technically yes, but by omitting UTf-16 you are excluding most of the world
(Java, C#/.NET, Windows). UCS-2 doesn't cover all Unicode code points, but it
could be that Windows/Java limits itself to UCS-2 rather than using
full UTF-16. I have never needed to use UTF-32, so who actually uses it?
Karl
