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by panic 3296 days ago
Sure, UTF-8 isn't always the shortest, but for many common strings (like JSON-encoded objects with ASCII keys) it is much shorter than UTF-32. The point is that using a list representation means you can't do any better than UTF-32, even if you wanted to.
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If you have ASCII, might I recommend the ASCII character set and encoding?