> From: [email protected] [mailto:mono-devel-list-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Purdy
> 
> > For historical reasons, System.String uses the UCS-2 character encoding,
> that is, UTF-16 without surrogate pairs.
> 
> > However, most strings in typical .NET applications consist solely of ASCII
> characters, leading to wasted space: half of the bytes in a string are likely 
> to
> be null bytes!

What's wrong with UTF-8?
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