Trouble saving unicode text to file

[Thomas Bellman]

John Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net> writes:

> Which raises a question: who or what is going to read your file? If a
> Unicode-aware application, and never a human, you might like to
> consider encoding the text as utf-16.

Why would one want to use an encoding that is neither semi-compatible
with ASCII (the way UTF-8 is), nor uses fixed-with characters (like
UTF-32 does)?


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