On 06 Nov 2013, at 10:38 , Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote:

> BTW, do we still need UTF16 support ?
> 
> For those encodings that we still want to support in the future, we should 
> have new and more principled implementations under ZnCharacterEncoder. That 
> is, if we ever want to fase out TextConverter.

UTF16 is the encoding for string arguments to the Unicode-aware version of the 
Windows API's, so I’d say yes.
Not too sure about JNI, but I know Java also uses UTF16 internally.

So the short answer is yes.
Not as a storage encoding, but for calling foreign functions, it’s quite 
important.

Cheers,
Henry

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