On Sunday 2. March 2008, Swaminathan Saikumar wrote:
>I am using UTF8 Unicode for most of my data, but there is some data
> that I know for sure will be ASCII. However, this is also stored as
> UTF8, using up more space.
ASCII stored as UTF8 doesn't take up more space than plain ASCII, it's
exactly the same thing. It's one byte per character unless the
character number is above 127.
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