Re: iconv "versions"

On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 23:02:03 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

 
so the original 16-bit code became that
monstrosity known as “UTF-16”. Which Windows and Java (and maybe one or
two other things that adopted Unicode at just the wrong time) have been
saddled with ever since.
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I find it very amusing that official Microslop text files, such as
are contained in their .msi and other installers, are TWICE the size
of ordianry text files due to the use of UTF-16.  For every 8-bit ASCII
char there is a high 8-bits of all zeros.  What a waste of space!

But that's the usual idiocy of Microslop.