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{{Short description|Overview on Unicode implementation in Microsoft Windows}}

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[[Microsoft]] was one of the first companies to implement [[Unicode]] in their products. [[Windows NT]] was the first operating system that used "wide characters" in [[system call]]s. Using the (now obsolete) [[UCS-2]] encoding scheme at first, it was upgraded to the [[variable-width encoding]] [[UTF-16]] starting with [[Windows 2000]], allowing a representation of additional planes with surrogate pairs. However Microsoft did not support [[UTF-8]] in its API until May 2019.