RE: Japanese Web pages in Unicode?

[Marco Cimarosti]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It seems to me that the Japanese prefer to use Shift-JIS or EUC-JP to 
> Unicode in their Web pages. Why on earth is this?
> [...] hankaku katakana take up twice as many bytes?

UTF-8
        ASCII:  1 bytes
        hankaku:        3 bytes
        other:  3 bytes

UTF-16
        ASCII:  2 bytes
        hankaku:        2 byte
        other:  2 bytes

EUC-JP:
        ASCII:  1 byte
        hankaku:        1 byte
        other:  2 bytes

Shift-JIS uses the same number of bytes as EUC-JP, plus a random number of
bytes to shift modes.

_ Marco