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One 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 by
by pmjordan 19y ago
One 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 19y agoClarification on parent: One of the best parts about UTF-8 is that ASCII text is also valid UTF-8-encoded text.
- pmjordan 19y 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