From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2009-02-22, Hans-Peter Diettrich  wrote:   
   >> 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 :-(   
      
   Latin only? But afaik even for Cyrillic and the Semitic language group it   
   doesn't matter.   
      
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