That obviously is the reason why Turbo - Delphi uses UCS-2 (16 bit) instead of OF UTF-8 or UTF-16 for WideStrings (and WideChar is a 16 bit (UCS-2) value).The encoding can be important for speed: For example the widestring xml parser is up to 10 times slower than the ansistring xml parser.
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