Pavel Radzivilovsky, Yakov Galka, and Slava Novgorodov (via Hacker News): UTF-16 is the worst of both worlds—variable length and too wide. It exists for historical reasons, adds a lot of confusion and will hopefully die out. Portability, cross-platform interoperability and simplicity are more important than interoperability with existing platform APIs. So, the best approach is … Continue reading UTF-8 Everywhere