> I keep having a nagging question about this, because I keep reading
> people saying UTF-8 is the default. Isn't it implementation defined:
> UTF-8 or UTF-16 that is the default?

Yes. The processor is allowed to choose either. In practice many
implementations also allow the encoding to be specified by external means,
e.g. by supplying a character stream as the output destination.

Michael Kay
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