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pornel on Aug 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Should UTF-16 be considered harmful?

Baidu uses GBK, which is more efficient than UTF-16, doesn't suffer from Han unification, and has ASCII compatibility similar to UTF-8.

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