And most mainstream GUI toolkits are, as well. It can be said that UTF-16 is the de-facto standard in-memory representation of unicode strings, even though some runtimes (Rust) prefer UTF-8.

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0points 4 days ago | parent [-]

> And most mainstream GUI toolkits are, as well.

No. Windows use UTF-16 internally. Most GUI toolkits do not.

> It can be said that UTF-16 is the de-facto standard in-memory representation of unicode strings, even though some runtimes (Rust) prefer UTF-8.

No, that wouldn't be true at all.

Your technical merit seem to be limited by your Windows experience, and even that is dated.

Microsoft recommends UTF-8 over UTF-16 since 2019 [1].

1: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/global...

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perching_aix 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Most GUI toolkits do not.

Why are you guys talking like there were dozens of GUI toolkits in mainstream use? It's basically web stuff, Qt, and then everything else. Web would be UTF-16 as discussed above, Qt is UTF-16, and even if we entertain the admittedly "large just behind-the-scenes" Java/.NET market, that's also all UTF-16. WxWidgets being a fence sitter can do both UTF-8 and UTF-16, depending on the platform.

Which players am I missing? GTK and ImGUI? I don't think they are too big a slices of this pie, certainly not big enough to invalidate the claim.

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grishka 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Apple also uses some kind of UTF-16 internally, afaik