On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 08:02:30AM -0700, Deborah Goldsmith wrote: > UTF-16 is the type used in all the APIs. Everything else is considered an > encoding conversion. > > CoreFoundation uses UTF-16 internally except when the string fits entirely > in a single-byte legacy encoding like MacRoman or MacCyrillic. If any kind > of Unicode processing needs to be done to the string, it is first coerced > to UTF-16. If it weren't for backwards compatibility issues, I think we'd > use UTF-16 all the time as the machinery for switching encodings adds > complexity. I wouldn't advise it for a new library.
I do not believe that anyone was seriously advocating multiple blessed encodings. The main question is *which* encoding to bless. 99+% of text I encounter is in US-ASCII, so I would favor UTF-8. Why is UTF-16 better for me? Stefan
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