It's not just Windows and JavaScript. On Apple platforms, NSString is UTF-16. On Linux, Qt uses UTF-16 strings. Looking at languages, we have Java (which is where JS got this bug from) and C# both enshrining it in their respective language specs.
So it's far more pervasive than people think, and will likely be in the picture for decades to come.
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It's not just Windows and JavaScript. On Apple platforms, NSString is UTF-16. On Linux, Qt uses UTF-16 strings. Looking at languages, we have Java (which is where JS got this bug from) and C# both enshrining it in their respective language specs.
So it's far more pervasive than people think, and will likely be in the picture for decades to come.