From: Štěpán Němec Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:16:00 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/22] Refactor to accept NUL in commit messages Message-ID: <87sjmh4brz.fsf@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111024224558.GB10481@sigill.intra.peff.net> 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 -- Štěpán