One disadvantage Unicode has over ASCII, though, is that it takes at least twice as much memory to store a Roman alphabet character because Unicode uses more bytes to enumerate its vastly larger range of alphabetic symbols.
LIES. A decent (though brief) article about increasing Unicode use on the web, and then they write this in their last paragraph. They even mention UTF-8!
Sorry, I kind of assumed that the HN crowd would know this. (judging by the comments - maybe the silent, lurking masses don't, I don't know) I've read a few too many articles with glaring mistakes today.
If you're reading this, are even vaguely technically inclined and don't know what we're talking about, please read
LIES. A decent (though brief) article about increasing Unicode use on the web, and then they write this in their last paragraph. They even mention UTF-8!
Here's the original source of the data:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/moving-to-unicode-51....