Comparison of Unicode encodings: Difference between revisions

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This page compares [[Unicode]] encodings. Two situations are considered: eight-bit-clean environments and environments like [[Simple Mail Transfer Protocol]] that forbid use of byte values that have the high bit set. Originally such prohibitions were to allow for links that used only seven data bits, but they remain in the standards and so software must generate messages that comply with the restrictions. [[Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode]] and [[Binary Ordered Compression for Unicode]] are excluded from the comparison tables because it is difficult to simply quantify their size.

==Summary of size issues==