On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com> wrote:

Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com> writes:

> I don't think *anyone* is asserting that UTF-16 is a common encoding
> for files anywhere,

*ahem* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16/UCS-2#Use_in_major_operating_systems_and_environments

I was talking about the contents of the files, not the file names or how the system calls work. I know at least on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, if you open up the default text editor, type in a few letters and hit save, the file will not be in UTF-16.

Michael