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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments
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Alan Cox wrote:
> 
>> Funny that you mention Windows. Windows has been using 16-bit unicode
>> for a long time without problems. It's a clean encoding. Like it or not.
> 
> I would describe the UCS-2 situation as a disaster area - embedded nuls
> causing breakage, inability to represent the full unicode space and
> awkward programming interfaces.
> 

Not to mention the fact that UCS-2 ran out of code points almost as soon 
as they said "no more codepoints."  The result was UTF-16, a hideous 
abortion which took all the problems with wide encodings, combined it 
with all the problems of multibyte encodings, and added a few new ones 
for good measure.

	-hpa