Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

[Richard Gaskin]

Fraser Gordon wrote:

 > In 7.0, text is always Unicode (specifically, UTF-16...)

Why UTF-16 rather than UTF-8?

The latter would seem more compact, and appears to be the default for 
nearly every other dev tool (and text processors and so much more).

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