Comment by grishka
4 years ago
> since Windows is the only major OS that made the unfortunate choice of having the base character type 16 bits wide
Apple OSes use something they call "unichar" inside NSStrings. I'm not 100% sure what it is, but it feels like it's the same 16-bit wide character.
It's possible! It seemed like a sensible choice back in the early 90s when the answer to making a system for global use was UCS-2. I know Java was another one that went with that decision.