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 > >-- >Stephan.Walter(a)epfl.ch -- http://lart.info/~stw/ -- PGP: B2421799 > > > >_______________________________________________ >Wikitech-l mailing list >Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org >http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >

those are 128 characters, which get 1 byte bigger, yes. Also there are many characters, which get smaller, as the HTML-Entities are 6-8 Byte long, the same in UTF-8 is only 3-4 Byte. And don't forget links like [[Lodz|Łódź]]: 28 byte before, 14 Byte after (maybe little different..). Same for all Interwiki-Links to non-latin Wikipedias and even for many east-european WPs. On DE: (known to have a massive use of ä, ö ü and ß) we had no visible grow with the conversion.

- Links with Encodings as %FC don't work after the conversion - they should be converted before, especially for Interlanguage-Links, where you sometimes can't guess the right spelling

Am Donnerstag, 19. August 2004 21:51 schrieb Brion Vibber: see there: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umstellung_auf_Unicode/Prozent-Links

3 Points you should know before: - - Links with Encodings as %FC don't work after the conversion - they should be converted before, especially for Interlanguage-Links, where you sometimes can't guess the right spelling

- - sometimes there are two encodings for only 1 character - for example Ð has 4 or 5 of them.

- - we had massive problems with non-ASCII-Usernames on de: