Terry Reedy wrote: >> usually shorter in languages with many ideographs (my non-scientific >> tests indicate that chinese text uses about 4 times less symbols than >> english; I'm sure someone can dig up better figures). > > This is why I am not especially enamored of Unicode and the prospect of Python becoming married to > it. It is heavily weighted in favor of efficiently representing Chinese and inefficiently > representing English. Don't confuse Unicode with its UCS-2 and UCS-4 encodings. On a conceptual level, good old 7-bit ASCII and 8-bit ISO-Latin-1 are both Unicode. </F>
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