Thread: Amazon Japan releases PW Manga Model
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Old 10-19-2016, 10:04 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by NullNix View Post
Because manga is wildly popular over there, and even non-manga stuff is mostly CJK and thus needs circa two to four times as much space.
Is that really true? Although each character requires more bytes to encode, there are fewer characters than there would be for the equivalent ASCII text. Doesn't it even out?
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