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Old 02-24-2014, 04:08 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
The Unicode character may be actually stored as utf-8 or utf-16, but that's mostly invisible to the user:
In utf-8 it will be saved as: C3 A9 (two bytes)
In utf-16 it will be saved as: 00 E9 (two bytes)
However, since in utf-16, all characters need be encoded with at least two bytes, utf-16 files can be up to twice the size as utf-8 files (if they only contain characters from the Basic Latin block).

IMHO, there's no real benefit in using utf-16 for ePubs or anything else for that matter.
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