Unicode (UTF-16) files on Windows

Brian de Alwis bsd at cs.ubc.ca
Fri Aug 21 14:54:00 BST 2009


On 20-Aug-2009, at 4:38 AM, Philippe Lhoste wrote:
> I found back a similar case: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2006q2/010794.html
> "Have you ever seen a UTF-16/UCS-2 source file in a tree? I know  
> they might occur on Windows but it seems unlikely even there."
> Well, we have here a "typical" case. That, and text files  
> (documents) written with Notepad (an error, I know...) which  
> defaults (?) to UTF-16, for example.


I've had VisualStudio 2005 and 2008 produce C# source files in UTF-16  
in the last year.

Brian.

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