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		munificent on Sept 24, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Crafting Interpreters: Strings Hmm, interesting. I guess they'd likely end up three bytes in UTF-8. Do you have any details you can point me at?

camgunz on Sept 25, 2018 [–]

Nothing like a paper or anything, but just kind of anecdotally I downloaded 西遊記 from Project Gutenberg [1] and measured it. In UTF-8 it's 2,236,564 bytes, in UTF-16 it's 1,554,998 bytes.

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23962/23962-0.txt

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