4 Jun
2014
4 Jun
'14
9:53 a.m.
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
I think you really need to check what the applications are in detail. UTF-8 costs about 35% more storage for Japanese, and even more for Chinese, than does UTF-16.
"UTF-8 can be smaller even for Asian languages, e.g.: front page of Wikipedia Japan: 83 kB in UTF-8, 144 kB in UTF-16"
From http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Ierusalimschy.pdf (p. 12)