Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/22] Refactor to accept NUL in commit messages

From: Štěpán Němec <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:16:00 +0200

On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:45:58 +0200
Jeff King wrote:

> [1] English is my first language, so it's rare for me to even step
> outside of ASCII, let alone latin1. But aren't there some languages in
> which utf-16 is more efficient than utf-8?

You sometimes hear something along the lines of the second
"disadvantage" listed in the article below, i.e. "Characters U+0800
through U+FFFF use three bytes in UTF-8, but only two in UTF-16.":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Disadvantages_4

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Štěpán