Hi all, while UTF-8 is great, especially on Windows platforms UTF-16 is more common, because the OS uses it heavily internally. Since Win2k it also supports surrogates and supplementary characters. So there’s OS support for it. What I don’t know is, how universally is UTF-16 (or a subset of it) supported across other platforms? Can we assume a certain degree of support on all the various platforms that Thrift can run on?
TL;DR: Would it make sense to add UTF-16 as another string format type? Have fun, JensG Unicode in Windows https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd374081(v=vs.85).aspx Surrogates and Supplementary Characters https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd374069(v=vs.85).aspx
