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To: Thomas Munro <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Questionable description about character sets
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:07:35 -0600
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On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 05:35:41PM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> [...]. UTF-16 is
> apparently sometimes preferred to save space in other RDBMSs that can
> do it, but I suppose you could achieve the same size most of the time
> with a scheme like that. [...]
[Off-topic] I think UTF-16 yielding smaller encodings is a truism. It
really depends on what language the text is mostly written in, but
mostly it's a truism that's not true. Anyways, UTF-16 has to go away,
and the sooner the better.
Nico
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