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At 13 Nov 1999 15:46 -0000, Richard Anderson wrote: > But UTF-8 can support "foreign" characters so I dont see the argument for > having UTF-16 too. Also, generally speaking UTF-8 encoding results in > smaller output for most cases. Different people have different ideas of what constitutes "foreign". For the majority of the characters in the Unicode Standard, UTF-8 uses three bytes per character. However, for the US-ASCII characters, it uses only one byte per character. For all characters in the Unicode Standard, UTF-16 uses two bytes per character. Whether a given file is less bytes as UTF-8 or UTF-16 is largely a function of the proportion of unaccented Latin characters in the file. Moreover, most legacy encodings for a single script use one byte per character, although Chinese, Japanese, and Korean encodings use two or more bytes per character. UTF-8, therefore, isn't as efficient as the legacy encodings of most scripts. (Its advantage is that it can represent more scripts than any legacy encoding.) Regards, Tony Graham ====================================================================== Tony Graham mailto:tgraham@m... Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9632 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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