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> Lots of systems use UTF-16 internally and externally. Counting bytes in UTF-16 is, on average, almost as useful as counting bytes in UTF-8.

Not my experience at all. The article points out that even languages that are committed to an UTF-16 interface prefer to use other internal storage representations, and I can't remember the last time I saw it used in a transfer format.



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