> 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!
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