> IT is so Anglophile that programs can become slower if you deviate from ASCII... Well, switching from a simple, 7-bit character set where all you need to do

> IT is so Anglophile that programs can become slower if you deviate from ASCII... Well, switching from a simple, 7-bit character set where all you need to do is parse and display byte by byte to a potentially multi-byte processing and a display lookup table that's several orders of magnitude larger... it's pretty easy to see why things can become slower.