Re: Fwd: Last Call: UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646 to Proposed

Ira McDonald wrote:

> I agree with Harald's judgment that Informational and *not*
> Proposed Standard is appropriate.  The IETF has done a good
> job of updating core IETF protocols to prefer or require
> UTF-8.  Over the wire, UTF-16 has a long list of drawbacks
> and no visible advantages.  It shouldn't be 'legitimized'
> by IETF Proposed Standard designation. My two cents,

Plus mine makes three.

http://czyborra.com/utf/ lists all the drawbacks.