[GTALUG] interesting article and comments about UCS-16, UTF-16, UTF-8

From this I learned that Java and JavaScript now have optimizations to use LATIN-1 when they can. Normally they use UTF-16 (originally UCS-16). I take it that Using Latin-1 is an opportunistic optimization hidden from the program. I don't think Python 3 uses

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20600195 There are so many hairy details! UTF-8 gets a bit less coverage since it has fewer hairy details. this. I think that Linux does this right and needs no such hack: just use UTF-8. Of course Java, JavaScript, Python 2, and Python 3 on Linux don't get it right.