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Anon is a linguist (lemmy.world)

submitted 23 hours ago by alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

does chinese code take up less space? wait how many bytes does it take to encode a chinese character? is it just UTF-8 or is it something else

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

UTF-16 is fine for the cat majority of Chinese characters. It has been standard since 2008 for C++ (at least for code that wants to be running on windows; Microsoft moved everything to w_string back then).
C# uses UTF-16 natively for strings.
Dunno about other languages