7 Oct
2009
7 Oct
'09
10:55 p.m.
Ronald Oussoren:
Both Carbon and the modern APIs use UTF-16.
If Unicode size standardization is seen as sufficiently beneficial then UTF-16 would be more widely applicable than UTF-32. Unix mostly uses 8-bit APIs which are either explicitly UTF-8 (such as GTK+) or can accept UTF-8 when the locale is set to UTF-8. They don't accept UTF-32. It is possible that Unix could move towards UTF-32 but that hasn't been the case up to now and with both OS X and Windows being UTF-16, it is more likely that UTF-16 APIs will become more popular on Unix. Neil