Comparison of Unicode encodings: Difference between revisions

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==Summary of size issues==

UTF-32 loses in almost every case since it uses 4 bytes for every character. Since characters outside the [[basic multilingual plane]] are very rare, andit onewill ofnormally thebe bytesvery ofnearly BMPtwice charactersas inbig as UTF-32 is always 016. For seven-bit environments UTF-7 clearly wins over the combination of other Unicode encodings with [[quoted printable]] or [[base64]]. For eight-bit-clean environments things vary considerably depending on what code points are in the text.

==Considerations other than size==