Re: Want Input boxes to accept unicode strings on Standard Window
I agree for internal strings, but when you are writing to files, could be
lots of them, then the difference could add up. I agree though. We have
way more memory to work with these days. Of course we have more hard drive
space too. Could be I'm working too hard.
Tom
"Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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One nice thing about UTF-8 is that if you do most of your files in
English
(as I do), but need to support other languages you still get the benefit
of
having smaller files for English or other languages where more than one
byte is not needed.
Somethimes this does not matter that much.
I had a lot of oposition to using UTF-16 for all the string resources we
use
in one of our application (not standard Windows resources, which are
UTF-16)
And the reason was size. Until I showed them that all the strings
together,
encoded UTF-16, where smaller than the splash-screen :-)
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