From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 09:18:11 -0300, Wolfgang Agnes wrote:   
      
   > How about UCS-2?   
      
   “UCS-2” was the name of the encoding back when it was assumed that Unicode   
   was always going to be just 16 bits. After the coding was extended, those   
   “surrogate” ranges were introduced, to allow representation of the extra   
   characters within a 16-bit encoding, and so “UCS-2” was renamed to   
   “UTF-16”.   
      
   In short, “UTF-16” is basically “UCS-2 with surrogates”.   
      
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