First Impressions!

[Patrick Schluter]

On Thursday, 30 November 2017 at 17:40:08 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
>
> [...] And if you're not dealing with Asian languages, UTF-16 
> uses up more space than UTF-8.

Not even that in most cases. Only if you use unstructured text 
can it happen that UTF-16 needs less space than UTF-8. In most 
cases, the text is embedded in some sort of ML (html, odf, docx, 
tmx, xliff, akoma ntoso, etc...) which puts the balance again to 
the side of UTF-8.