> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 01:30:04AM +0200, FRIGN wrote: >On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:09:41 -0400 >Roger <rogerx....@gmail.com> wrote: > >Hey Roger, > >> I thought non-ASCII characters required 16 bits within UTF-8, versus just 8 >> bits for ASCII. Therefore more memory. More memory referencing, requires >> more >> processing. > >I can't take you seriously, sorry. UTF-8 is the future, there's no way around >it. >You need multiples of 8 bit to store non-ASCII-codepoints, but UTF-8 is doing a >great job.
I tend to agree too UTF-8 is the future. >Keep in mind: For most text streams, you are dealing with ASCII-characters. >This >is one argument against UTF-16, which has a bottleneck in this regard. Copy that. -- Roger http://rogerx.freeshell.org/
