On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote:
> > I think you really need to check what the applications are in detail. > UTF-8 costs about 35% more storage for Japanese, and even more for > Chinese, than does UTF-16. "UTF-8 can be smaller even for Asian languages, e.g.: front page of Wikipedia Japan: 83 kB in UTF-8, 144 kB in UTF-16" >From http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Ierusalimschy.pdf (p. 12)
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