Comparison of Unicode encodings: Difference between revisions

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Therefore, even on most UTF-16 systems such as [[Windows]] and [[Java (software platform)|Java]], UTF-16 text files are not common; older 8-bit encodings such as ASCII or [[ISO-8859-1]] are still used, forgoing Unicode support; or UTF-8 is used for Unicode. One rare counter-example is the "strings" file used by [[Mac OS X]] (10.3 and later) applications for lookup of internationalized versions of messages which defaults to UTF-16, with "files encoded using UTF-8 ... not guaranteed to work."<ref>[https://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPInternational/Articles/StringsFiles.html Apple Developer Connection: Internationalization Programming Topics: Strings Files]</ref>

[[XML]] is, by default, encoded as UTF-8{{Dubious|UTF-8 Default?}}, and all XML processors must at least support UTF-8 (including US-ASCII by definition) and UTF-16.<ref>{{cite web

|url=http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#charencoding

|title=Character Encoding in Entities