Re: [EXPERIMENTAL] 1st draft of Encode

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

> To me the UTF8 flag is just a trick to improve the performance of

Ahh, I'd say all the UTF-8 encoding and decoding is, if anything,
degrading our performance.  UTF-8 is space-spaving for US-ASCII,
that's about the only redeeming feature of it, for all the other
character ranges it is wasteful in space.  I would go for UCS-2
(UTF-16) as soon as possible as the preferred internal encoding.

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