[jwarkentin]

I never got that. He wrote a great article about the issue and then ended with using UCS-2. I always wondered if there was something I missed that made him choose UCS-2 over UTF-8, since UTF-8 can represent every Unicode code point.

[rb12345]

I imagine it's linked to Win32 and .Net using UCS-2 internally, since then there's no need to convert strings before and after API calls.