In the case of ISO 8859-1 characters outside the ASCII range (e.g. á, é,
ñ, ç, etc) it actually needs more space, 1 byte versus 2 bytes, I think.
Nevertheless nl: has few of these characters when compared with es: or fr:.
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
He is probably confusing it with UTF-16 or UTF-32
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:22:04 +0200, Stephan Walter
<stephan.walter(a)epfl.ch> wrote:
>Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>
>>some time ago to move to UTF-8. At the time it was not such a good idea
>>as UTF-8 does take more room.
>
>More room? UTF-8 does not use more memory, if that's what you mean. HTML
>entities (like Ӓ) use 5 up to 7 bytes, while a character in UTF-8
>uses at most 4 bytes.
>
>Regards,
>Stephan
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