On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Gautam John <gautam(a)prathambooks.org> wrote:
Data usage: Use of Unicode will significantly reduce
bandwidth/storage
This is technically wrong if we are comparing with ASCII encoded data.
If you read the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode article, you can
understand that the indic letter അ (unicode) requires more bytes than
a single English letter "A"
Each Unicode character is multi-byte character while in ASCII, it is
single byte.
Search (within a page/web search etc.)
This is not comparable since search is not possible in ascii font way
of representing data. Since the data is not in Hindi , but we just
"see" as Hindi, one cannot do a search or any such data processing on
that data.
-Santhosh