13 billion years ago, Microsoft made a bet on a technology called "UTF-16". Now, here at the end of time, that bad bet is ruining my day.
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I should be familiar with UTF16, as I worked multi-lingual programming but I have been retired for a while - UTF8 is or was the standard we worked with.
Every system I have ever worked on has used UTF8. That covered all the necessary bases for most/all languages.
@Paulos_the_fog it's just utf 8 but with 16 bit characters. So you don't get the effienciency of single bytes for Latin text that UTF-8 has, but you also don't get the "1 character = 1 codepoint" convenience of UTF-32. It is basically the worst of all possible worlds.