I may be wrong here, but I'm fairly sure that the dominant unicode
library (IBM's ICU) is centred around UTF-16. That sounds like a good
reason for using it. Generally I've got the impression that UTF-8 is
much better for web use as it's more space-efficient, but it's also
apparently slower to process than UTF-16, which would explain the
choice in a library.
I know that Valentina went UTF-16 for precisely this reason.
Marcus
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