JS1K 2013

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>>9
Here is a man who hates UTF-16: http://benlynn.blogspot.ca/2011/02/utf-8-good-utf-16-bad_07.html

Enjoy!

>>10
UTF-16 is a variable-length encoding, and hence not much simpler than UTF-8
It is very much simpler handling either 2 or 4-byte characters only, compared to 1, 2, 3, or 4 for UTF-8.
As for the second: consider HTML
HTML is not the only form of text there is.
The encoding is inflexible
In 20+ years only ~10% of the whole code space has been assigned. 1.1M characters is plenty already.
Ugly encoding
Subjective. As if UTF-8's multiple shifts and compares are any better?

Here is someone who has written UTF-8 and UTF-16 codecs, so I have first-hand experience that UTF-8 encoding is more complex than UTF-16.

>>23
Here is someone who has written UTF-8 and UTF-16 codecs, so I have first-hand experience that UTF-8 encoding is simpler than UTF-16.