Posted by Toby Inkster on 05/27/06 14:17

ironcorona wrote:

> How come you're using UTF-16? Russian and Chinese can both be encoded
> in UTF-8.

A typical Chinese character will take up 16 bits in a UTF-16 file, but 24
bits in a UTF-8 file. Thus a UTF-8 file may be up to 50% bigger than
UTF-16. Most Western characters only use 8 bits in UTF-8, but 16 in
UTF-16, so for Western languages, UTF-8 can be up to 50% smaller than
UTF-16.

So if a page uses primarily non-Western characters, UTF-16 is often a
better choice.

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