On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 11:39:11AM +0100, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On Nov 25, 2007 10:12 AM, Florian Klaempfl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Only if you use latin characters, but the bigger part of people in the
> > world use letter requiring 2-3 bytes in utf-8 but only 2 bytes in
> > utf-16. So overall utf-16 would be the better choice.
>
> Chinese requires 2-4 bytes in utf-16. I'm not sure of what requires 3
> bytes on utf-8 but 2 on utf-16, maybe Japanese?
>
Yes and UTF-8 is ASCII compatible if you care to don't use non ASCII chars
so, the en fallback is always working and _this_ is a real plus...
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