On October 8, 2018 19:45:35 Tom Honermann <tom_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> It would be interesting to get more perspective on how and why ICU evolved
> like it did. What was the motivation for ICU to switch to char16_t? Were
> the anticipated benefits realized despite the perhaps unanticipated
> complexities?


I believe it was mentioned during the last meeting that this was
specifically to support u"..." string literals. I could be wrong though.