Unicode education in Schools

Eli Zaretskii via Unicode unicode at unicode.org
Sat Aug 26 10:55:25 CDT 2017


> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 16:09:33 +0100
> From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org>
> 
> > > Just steer them away from UTF-16!  
> > 
> > Which will leave them entirely unprepared for the MS-Windows Unicode
> > programming, something they of course will never need in their
> > careers.
> 
> It shouldn't.  UTF-16 works just like UTF-8, except that the code units
> are bigger.

Not really, since UTF-8 doesn't have surrogates.


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