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Originally Posted by Doitsu
It does indeed more or less disappear when the files are zipped, but since the reading software has to unzip the .html files in order to render the text and some older readers have problems with .html files significantly larger than 280 KB, IMHO, there's no point in using utf-16 in the first place.
AFAIK, utf-16 only needs to be used with certain APIs that expect utf-16 formatted strings and for the proper handling of some CJK characters. |
Actually UTF-16 is preferred for some languages. UTF-8, as you point out, is perfect for English and Latin based languages but it is a variable length and will actually produce a larger file than UTF-16 for some languages which is why it is in the standard. Check our wiki on Unicode.
Dale