On 8/11/2015 11:28 AM, Ken Hornstein wrote:
AFAICT ... there is probably no advantage in using UTF-16 or UTF-32 versus UTF-8.
They actually bring in disadvantages. Using UTF-16 or 32 may be desirable in some locales where their language characters are presented by larger value codepoints, so something in UTF-16 may actually take up less space than UTF-8. The size saving is only in specific locales. For the Latin-based locales, UTF-16 will actually take up more space than UTF-8.
So given that, I think sticking with UTF-8 is preferrable; it has the nice property that we can represent text as C strings and it's just ASCII if you're living in a 7-bit world.
Agreed. --ewh _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
