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Wed Jun 4 11:53:43 CEST 2014 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-June/134730.html

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>
wrote:

>
> I think you really need to check what the applications are in detail.
> UTF-8 costs about 35% more storage for Japanese, and even more for
> Chinese, than does UTF-16.

"UTF-8 can be smaller even for Asian languages, e.g.: front page of
Wikipedia Japan: 83 kB in UTF-8, 144 kB in UTF-16"
>From http://www.lua.org/wshop12/Ierusalimschy.pdf (p. 12)
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