On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> UTF-16 is like UCS-2, but adds UTF-8-like escape sequences to handle
> the high 16 bits of the 32-bit Unicode space. It combines the worst
> features of UTF-8 and UCS-2. UTF-16 is the character set used by
> Windows APIs and the ICU library.
ICU can be built to support UTF-8 natively. UTF-8 support has been at
the same level as UTF-16 support for some time now.
"English language privilege" on your part (as you put it) could be
argued if the OP was arguing for UTF-16, but since he argued for
UTF-32, I don't see how that could possibly apply. UTF-16 is slightly
preferable for storing East Asian text, but UTF-32 is a niche encoding
worldwide.
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Peter Geoghegan