--- Karl Ove Hufthammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
"Tomas Frydrych" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> in
> 3CC57D83.21504.97D3F4@localhost:">news:3CC57D83.21504.97D3F4@localhost:
> 
> > utf-8 requires more processing time for all
> people,
> 
> And there is (AFAIK) *no* advantage to use UTF-8
> over UTF-16.

UTF-8 is easier to get right for the characters that
fall into the area that would require surrogates in
UTF-16.

> > utf-32 more memory for most people.
> 
> For *all* people. Almost all characters fit in
> UTF-16 without
> using surrogates, and certainly all the most
> commonly characters
> do. Surrogates will be very rare.

Most Chinese documents will have a couple since many
common Chinese names require characters that are very
uncommon outside of family names.

Andrew Dunbar.

> -- 
> Karl Ove Hufthammer 

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