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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] UString
From: php@beccati.com (Matteo Beccati)

On 21/10/2014 15:17, Lester Caine wrote:
> On 21/10/14 11:50, Matteo Beccati wrote:
>> However, doesn't ICU use UTF-16 by default which is undesirable as most
>> of the times it requires converting from and to UTF-8?
> 
> http:// userguide.icu-project.org/strings/utf-8
> It is interesting that the earlier adoption of UTF-16 still prevails,
> but switching to UTF-8 is becoming the norm?

Yes, as far as I knew using UTF-8 by default was a compile-time option
for ICU, that most of the times comes from system packages.


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