On: The UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto

[luriel]

> True. But as you said, you have to know if it's BE or LE on UTF16.

Yes, with UTF-16 you need to know not just the encoding, but also the endianness. That makes UTF-16 worse, not better.

UTF-16 is really the worst of all possible worlds: tons of wasted space with all the complexities of variable encoding without fixed endianness.