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> Windows adopted Unicode before most other operating systems. [citation needed]

Windows multibyte / mbcs is not unicode.

Windows NT uses actual Unicode under the hood (originally UCS-2, now UTF-16).

Windows NT started development in 1989 and was released in 1993. Considering the Unicode standard was first published in 1991/2, I think Windows NT can be counted as an early adopter.

Well, UCS-2 is not UTF-16

But it is Unicode.

Back when Unicode was adopted by Windows, there was no UTF-16.

He's referring to UCS-2, not MBCS.

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