21.06.2010 16:46, Sergey Mereutsa wrote:
AWH>> Why do you say UTF-8 is slow?

>
> Because you can not count string length, for example, without walking
> it all - because each char in UTF8 (if we speak about it native
> representation) can be from 1 to 6 bytes length.

But is counting of symbols so frequent operation to care about its
speed?..

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