• For anyone that says Unicode, I ask, which one?

    UTF-8

    UTF-16 (BE by default)

    UTF-16BE

    UTF-16LE

    UTF-32 (BE by default)

    UTF-32BE

    UTF-32LE

    Or, perhaps, late 90's (very archaic) implementations like UCS-2 (used in SQL Server as 'Unicode')?