UTF-16 was earlier (strictly speaking UCS-2) and Windows adopted it (and also used elsewhere..). UTF-8 is almost in all cases better (except in East-Asian languages, but not even there, if you use, something HTML (or I guess XML..), that has has lots of ASCII for tags etc.):
http://utf8everywhere.org/ -- Palli. On Sunday, September 27, 2015 at 6:14:34 PM UTC, Daniel Carrera wrote: > > Hello, > > I just read of Wikipedia that UTF16 is not compatible with ASCII, but UTF8 > is a proper super-set of ASCII. If that's the case, why would anyone use > UTF16String instead of UTF8String? It seems like UTF8 has the lowest > probability of creating hassle down the road. Every valid ASCII string is a > valid UTF8 string. But at the same time, presumably UTF16 would not have > been invented if it didn't serve some purpose. Does anyone know what the > advantage of UTF16 is? > > Cheers, > Daniel. >
