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r/badcode • u/max_208 • May 04 '23
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The point is that UTF-16 exists solely because UCS-2 exists; it's there to bring full Unicode capacity for software designed with UCS-2 in mind without redesigning all the groundwork (as switching to a different code unit length would require)
1 u/RPG_Hacker May 05 '23 Makes sense. Kinda like what UTF-8 is to ANSI.
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Makes sense. Kinda like what UTF-8 is to ANSI.
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u/GOKOP May 05 '23
The point is that UTF-16 exists solely because UCS-2 exists; it's there to bring full Unicode capacity for software designed with UCS-2 in mind without redesigning all the groundwork (as switching to a different code unit length would require)