While your UTF-8 representation works, it would be worth it to verify your data
is correct. Whenever I have messes with Unicode, or any data for that matter
which can be external to an Xcode execution, I eyeball the actual bytes with
Hex Fiend:
https://github.com/ridiculousfish/hexfiend
Hard to say really, but we know that it does work properly on newer OSX (so
there is either some sort of compatibility change, classic Apple, or there
was a bug). I believe the UTF16 implementation we are using is correct, and
it was used in other places in the software as well, and it always
