String Data Types
- XML/XSLT: Unicode scalar values, implementation hidden
- Java: UTF-16
- Perl: bytes or UTF-8
- C/C++: multibyte (char*) or wide characters (wchar_t*: UTF-32, UTF-16,
or other), explicit conversions
- Python: String (bytes) and Unicode (currently
UCS-2/UTF-16, possible to
configure to UTF-32); mix-and-match