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Google: Unicode conquers ASCII on the Web
- pmjordan 18y agoOne disadvantage Unicode has over ASCII, though, is that it takes at least twice as much memory to store a Roman alphabet character because Unicode uses more bytes to enumerate its vastly larger range of alphabetic symbols. LIES. A decent (though brief) article about increasing Unicode use on the web, and then they write this in their last paragraph. They even mention UTF-8! Here's the original source of the data: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/moving-to-unicode-51.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/moving-to-unicode-51....
- aston 18y agoClarification on parent: One of the best parts about UTF-8 is that ASCII text is also valid UTF-8-encoded text.
- pmjordan 18y agoSorry, I kind of assumed that the HN crowd would know this. (judging by the comments - maybe the silent, lurking masses don't, I don't know) I've read a few too many articles with glaring mistakes today. If you're reading this, are even vaguely technically inclined and don't know what we're talking about, please read http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
- pkrumins 18y agois all wrong!