Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> > And thus, like any decent variable-length encoding scheme, it tries to 
> > assign short codes to common symbols. (Although UTF-8 probably fails 
> > horribly for, say, Japanese text. I don't actually know...)
> For Japanese and Chinese, it average around 3 bytes per characters. It's not so 
> bad after all, as each characters in those represent a whole word, some even 
> represent a whole phrase or some complexe concept.

  UTF16 is better because it uses 2 bytes for the vast majority of the most
commonly used kanjis and other symbols used in Japanese.

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                                                          - Warp

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