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From: Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: UTF-8 and strings
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:29:14 +0000 (UTC)
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John M. Dlugosz <uwqejpnp92@snkmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 9, 7:36=A0am, "MikeP" <mp011...@some.org> wrote:
>>
>> But isn't Windows (XP)'s "UTF-16" really UCS-2 and hence not a risk at
>> all then?
>=20
> Originally, yes.  At some point it went to real UTF-16 awareness, at
> least for rendering strings using fonts into windows, and converting
> between code pages correctly.  This was around Windows-2000 or XP,
> certainly well before Windows 7.

I don't need my text editor to absorb all the complexity of a word
processor.


>=20
> I think the file system is technically still USC-2 in that it doesn't
> care what the code points mean and doesn't reject improper use of
> surrogate pairs as errors.
>=20