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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 :-(              DoDi              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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