juuitchan@hotmail.com wrote:
> It seems to me that the Japanese prefer to use Shift-JIS or EUC-JP to
> Unicode in their Web pages. Why on earth is this?
> [...] hankaku katakana take up twice as many bytes?
UTF-8
ASCII: 1 bytes
hankaku: 3 bytes
other: 3 bytes
UTF-16
ASCII: 2 bytes
hankaku: 2 byte
other: 2 bytes
EUC-JP:
ASCII: 1 byte
hankaku: 1 byte
other: 2 bytes
Shift-JIS uses the same number of bytes as EUC-JP, plus a random number of
bytes to shift modes.
_ Marco
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