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History: Unicode is not a storage mechanism. Alos, afik, it is agnostic about storage (UCS2, UTF8, UTF16). This section needs a rewrite by someone who understands these distinctions.
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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419133700/https://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/#charencoding
|url-status=live}}</ref> All current Microsoft products and [[application program interfaces]] use Unicode internally,{{cn|date=October 2020}} but some applications continue to use the default encoding{{clarify|date=October 2024}} of the computer's 'locale' when reading and writing text data to files or standard output.{{cn|date=October 2020}} Therefore, files may still be encountered that are legible and intelligible in one part of the world but unintelligible [[mojibake]] in another.
 
=== UTF-8, UTF-16 ===