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		chrismorgan 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Base84 deserves a place in file names Not much is actually UCS-2; almost all things like that are rather unvalidated UTF-16, also known as sequences of UTF-16 code units.
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account42 5 days ago [–]

That's correct. Windows does decode surrogate pairs whenever filenames are displayed so its no longer UCS-2.

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