>> 1. In this big data and mobile era, in the country with most population, 50% more disk energy consuming for Chinese characters (UTF-8 usually 3 bytes for a Chinese character, while GB180830 only 2 bytes) is indeed a harm to "Carbon Neutral", along with Polar ice melting. > > Really? I thought GB18030 uses up to 4 bytes. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB_18030#Encoding > > --Parker: > More preciously description should be GB18030 use 2 or 4 bytes for Chinese characters. > It's a bit complicated to explain with only words but easy with help of the following graph. > > Most frequently used 20902 Chinese characters and 984 symbols in GBK is encoded with 2 bytes, which is a subset of GB18030. It does not sound fair argument unless you are going to implement only GBK compatible part of GB18030. Best regards, -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp
