Re: Invalid UTF-8 byte?

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 09:42:19AM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> On 05/04/18 02:09, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > Try UTF-16, what Microsoft (and a couple of years ago Apple) love to
> > call "Unicode": in more "Western" contexts every second byte is NULL!
>
> The Java platform uses UTF-16 internally:

Yes, many people thought UCS-2 was the answer back when 16 bits was 
enough for anybody.

Mike Stone