On 18/08/2012 19:40, rusi wrote:
On Aug 18, 10:59 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve
+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 08:07:05 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote:
Is there any reason why non ascii users are somehow penalized compared
to ascii users?
Of course there is a reason.
If you want to represent 1114111 different characters in a string, as
Unicode supports, you can't use a single byte per character, or even two
bytes. That is a fact of basic mathematics. Supporting 1114111 characters
must be more expensive than supporting 128 of them.
But why should you carry the cost of 4-bytes per character just because
someday you *might* need a non-BMP character?
I am reminded of:
http://answers.microsoft.com/thread/720108ee-0a9c-4090-b62d-bbd5cb1a7605
Original above does not open for me but here's a copy that does:
http://onceuponatimeinindia.blogspot.in/2009/07/hard-drive-weight-increasing.html
ROFLMAO doesn't adequately some up how much I laughed.
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