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is this talk about apple? Regardless, lots of language runtimes still use utf16 (eg java, qt, haskell), and windows certainly still uses utf16.

Nit, but if you're thinking of Haskell's text library, it's utf8 now: https://github.com/haskell/text/pull/365

oh wow, I remember reading a blog post about how this effort wasn't going well a while ago. I guess it got through in the end!