Re:Crafting Interpreters: Strings
by camgunz on Monday September 24, 2018 @10:37PM
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Nothing like a paper or anything, but just kind of anecdotally I downloaded 西遊記 from Project Gutenberg [1] and measured it. In UTF-8 it's 2,236,564 bytes, in UTF-16 it's 1,554,998 bytes.
[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23962/23962-0.txt