I think it's actually CESU-8 encoding: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr26/ http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr26/ I'm guessing it's implemented like this for pe

I think it's actually CESU-8 encoding: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr26/ http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr26/ I'm guessing it's implemented like this for performance reasons and calling it utf-8 was just a marketing ploy as everyone knows we should always use utf-8 for everything...