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   Hans-Peter Diettrich to All   
   Re: Internal Representation of Strings   
   22 Feb 09 13:53:05   
   
   From: DrDiettrich1@aol.com   
      
   cr88192 schrieb:   
      
   > in general, UTF-8 takes less space than UTF-16 (and mixes much better with   
   > code designed for ASCII), but some many languages like UTF-16 more   
   > potentially because it works better when being treated as an array.   
      
   This IMO is a typical misconception of English-only speakers, which have   
   caused a lot of trouble in the evolution of programming languages :-(   
      
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