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The web consists of a lot of markup and javascript. That's all in ASCII compatible characters. So on the web UTF-8 usually wins even for Japanese or Chinese tex
by ruediger 15y ago
The web consists of a lot of markup and javascript. That's all in ASCII compatible characters. So on the web UTF-8 usually wins even for Japanese or Chinese texts. For example take a random page of the Japanese Wikipedia and encode it in UTF-8 and in UTF-16. In all my tries UTF-8 was smaller.