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by eighthnate 3212 days ago
UTF-16 is a right choice if you are in asia or outside of the west. UTF-8 is the right choice if you are in america or using the internet.

> A better solution is to allow programmers to specify string encoding and default it to UTF-8.

Agreed. UTF-8 is the sensible default for most people.