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It is, for the exact reason why I brought it up: if it were in UTF-32, it would take up much more memory. (UTF-8 is compatible with ASCII, but even if it was s
by steveklabnik 4y ago
It is, for the exact reason why I brought it up: if it were in UTF-32, it would take up much more memory.
(UTF-8 is compatible with ASCII, but even if it was stored in some other encoding, conceptually it could be in ASCII, you know?)