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