Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> It's about 12 BITS per characters, on average, not BYTES! That's useing UTF8 
> encoding. About 16 BITS per characters if using UTF16 encoding.
> UTF8 is only 7 BITS per characters if you stick to only standard ASCII 
> characters set, but it gets bigger if you also use extended ASCII or characters 
> from foreign alphabets.

  Except that if each single character is indeed garbage-collected, that
requires quite a lot of memory per character (compared to the size of the
character).

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                                                          - Warp

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