Am Wed, 01 Jun 2016 13:57:27 +0000 schrieb Joakim <dl...@joakim.fea.st>:
> No, I explicitly said not the web in a subsequent post. The > ignorance here of what 2G speeds are like is mind-boggling. I've used 56k and had a phone conversation with my sister while she was downloading a 800 MiB file over 2G. You just learn to be patient (or you already are when the next major city is hundreds of kilometers away) and load only what you need. Your point about the costs convinced me more. Here is one article spiced up with numbers and figures: http://www.thequint.com/technology/2016/05/30/almost-every-indian-may-be-online-if-data-cost-cut-to-one-third But even if you could prove with a study that UTF-8 caused a notable bandwith cost in real life, it would - I think - be a matter of regional ISPs to provide special servers and apps that reduce data volume. There is also the overhead of key exchange when establishing a secure connection: http://stackoverflow.com/a/20306907/4038614 Something every app should do, but will increase bandwidth use. Then there is the overhead of using XML in applications like WhatsApp, which I presume is quite popular around the world. I'm just trying to broaden the view a bit here. This note from the XMPP that WhatsApp and Jabber use will make you cringe: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6120#section-11.6 -- Marco