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Author serhiy.storchaka
Recipients ezio.melotti, gvanrossum, kennyluck, lemburg, loewis, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, tchrist, vstinner
Date 2013-10-08.10:28:06
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I repeat myself. Even with the patch, UTF-16 codec is faster than UTF-8 codec (except ASCII-only data). This is fastest Unicode codec in Python (perhaps UTF-32 can be made faster, but this is another issue).

> The real question is: Can the UTF-16/32 codecs be made fast
> while still detecting lone surrogates ? Not whether UTF-16
> is widely used or not.

Yes, they can. But let defer this to other issues.
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2013-10-08 10:28:07serhiy.storchakasetrecipients: + serhiy.storchaka, lemburg, gvanrossum, loewis, pitrou, vstinner, ezio.melotti, tchrist, kennyluck
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