Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#31185: Why is there no full support for Unicode?

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 13:45:40 -0700

On 04/17/2018 01:27 PM, Keepun wrote:
> why there are no plans to support UTF-16 and UTF-32?

Nobody has volunteered to do it, and there hasn't been a pressing need. 
UTF-16 and UTF-32 are primarily used for internal representation, not 
for text files. For more on the subject, please see:

http://utf8everywhere.org/