Unicode in Microsoft Windows: Difference between revisions

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Microsoft started to consistently implement [[Unicode]] in their products quite early{{clarify|date=July 2012}}. [[Windows NT]] was the first operating system that used Unicode in [[system call]]s. Using at first [[UCS-2]] encoding scheme, it was upgraded to [[UTF-16]] starting with [[Windows 2000]], allowing a representation of additional planes with surrogate pairs.

== In various Windows families ==