Well in 1990 China didn't matter.and Japan has Kanji .NET just did what windows did , NT4 was UCS2 , current version of Windows are flexible length UTF-16. The same .NET hack probably exists for the underlying windows libs and since a lot of .NET interops with win32 it sort of makes sense
Ben. I'm still puzzled by what they were thinking, since the conclusion that UCS2 wasn't big enough was evident when they made this decision. The current theory of operation seems to be that all handling of the upper code points is done with strings (i.e. never with chars).
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