Re: For Chinese, UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoding?

On Tuesday, 12 March, 2002, 06:14:34, Shailendra wrote:

MS> Hello,

MS> We have a software for Symbian OS.
MS> We have software strings stored in text-only file format.

MS> Earlier, when we localize this software into European languages,
MS> we used UTF-8 encoding.

MS> Now, we are going to localize this software into
MS> Simplified & Traditional Chinese.

MS> For Chinese localized files, should we use
MS> UTF-8 encoding or UTF-16 encoding?

You will get smaller filesizes, for predominantly Chines material,
with UTF-16.

Depending on the software, it might be advantageous to stick with a
single encoding, in which case use UTF-8; if that isn't a factor,use
UTF-16.


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