Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> >   UTF16 is better because it uses 2 bytes for the vast majority of the most
> > commonly used kanjis and other symbols used in Japanese.
> > 
> But then, you don't have place for the Chinese ones, then you need Vietnamese, 
> Corean, Hindu, Sanskrit, Latin, Cyrilic, Arabic, Inuctituk, Math symbols,...

  UTF16 can handle all those too, although some require 4 bytes.

  I suppose Chinese might be more compact with UTF8 than with UTF16,
especially if you use lots of kanjis not in the 2-byte UTF16 range
(because those require 4 bytes with UTF16, while in UTF8, AFAIK, they
require only 3).

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