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Unicode variable-width character encoding (between 1 and 4 bytes per code point).

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UTF8 vs ASCII or custom binary format: high-performance optimization on very big tables

The summary of my question is whether there are advantages, even if minimal, to use ASCII, or even a smaller format designed yet created specifically for the situation, instead of UTF-8 for strings. …