On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 19:22 +0000, Tim Lewis wrote:
> David, BTW, technically the UEFI spec doesn't use UTF-16. It uses
> UCS-2, an older subset of UTF-16. Tim

Coming back to this somewhat later... I think Windows *does* implement
UTF-16, doesn't it? 

See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2005/05/11/416552.aspx

If I'm reading this correctly, it's essentially a retrospective
declaration that Windows always *did* use UTF-16, but it just never used
any of the code points where you'd be able to tell the difference?

Should we do the same thing for EFI?

After all, the consistency with Windows is fairly much the only
justification for the bizarre decision to use UCS-2 in the first place,
surely? Otherwise I'd expect it really ought to have been UTF-8 from the
beginning.

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