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- not having to worry about byte order;
- and cruft like surrogate pairs;
- being able to pass the text through 8 bit string representations and even manipulate it as 8 bit in certain useful ways
Add bitmapped graphics to any text, and it will dominate the size.
Size of text is just noise in the world of streaming video, terabyte drives, fiber to the home ...
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- not having to worry about byte order;
- and cruft like surrogate pairs;
- being able to pass the text through 8 bit string representations and even manipulate it as 8 bit in certain useful ways
Add bitmapped graphics to any text, and it will dominate the size.
Size of text is just noise in the world of streaming video, terabyte drives, fiber to the home ...