Re: Use of characters "é" or "ê"

Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis (AT) comcast (DOT) net> wrote:

*What* lag? An accented character in ISO-8859-1 is one byte, exactly
the same as any unaccented ASCII character. It seems to me that under
any of the UTF encodings, the time required to expand the character
representations is trivial.

Some UTF encodings double the size of the file IIRC.

For the rest I agree :-D

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