First Impressions!

[Patrick Schluter]

On Saturday, 2 December 2017 at 10:35:50 UTC, Patrick Schluter 
wrote:
> On Friday, 1 December 2017 at 23:16:45 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> [...]
>
> That's true in theory, in practice it's not that severe as the 
> CJK languages are never isolated and appear embedded in a lot 
> of ASCII. You can read here a case study [1] which shows 106% 
> for Simplified Chinese, 76% for Traditional Chinese, 129% for 
> Japanese and 94% for Korean. These numbers for pure text.

106% for Korean, copied the wrong column. Traditiojal Chinese was 
smaller, probably because of whitespaces.

> Publish it on the web embedded in bloated html and there goes 
> the size advantage of UTF-16
>
> [...]