[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Only ASCII values store more space efficiently in UTF-8. All values
over 127 store more space efficiently using UTF-16.

This second statement is demonstrably not true. Only values above 0x07ff require more than 2 bytes in UTF-8. All chars up to that point are stored in UTF-8 with greater or equal efficiency than that of UTF-16. See http://www.zvon.org/tmRFC/RFC2279/Output/chapter2.html

cheers

andrew

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