He is probably confusing it with UTF-16 or UTF-32
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:22:04 +0200, Stephan Walter stephan.walter@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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