On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Gautam John <gau...@prathambooks.org> wrote: > Data usage: Use of Unicode will significantly reduce bandwidth/storage
This is technically wrong if we are comparing with ASCII encoded data. If you read the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode article, you can understand that the indic letter അ (unicode) requires more bytes than a single English letter "A" Each Unicode character is multi-byte character while in ASCII, it is single byte. > Search (within a page/web search etc.) This is not comparable since search is not possible in ascii font way of representing data. Since the data is not in Hindi , but we just "see" as Hindi, one cannot do a search or any such data processing on that data. -Santhosh _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
