Posted by Toby Inkster on 05/28/06 12:14

Alan J. Flavell wrote:

> I just tried saving the BBC News Chinese front page in the two
> encodings:
> 81672 May 27 13:34 bbc-chinese-utf16.html
> 43759 May 27 13:33 bbc-chinese-utf8.html
>
> In case that might be an unfair choice, I tried a Bank of China site:
> 141476 May 27 13:43 boc-tw-utf16.html
> 73144 May 27 13:44 boc-tw-utf8.html

Though both of these are probably a bit more markup-heavy/content-light
than I would care to write. On pages with a higher signal-to-noice ratio,
you'll probably find UTF-16 fares better.

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