Comment by curtisf

Comment by curtisf a day ago

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"number of bytes" is dependent on the text encoding.

UTF-8 code units _are_ bytes, which is one of the things that makes UTF-8 very nice and why it has won

ivanjermakov 17 hours ago

I would say Unicode has won, but not UTF-8. UTF-16 is also widely used due to its efficiency on asian texts.