</ul>
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<h2><a name="Unicode_encodings_UTF-8"></a>Unicode encodings, UTF-8</h2>
Since Unicode characters are generally represented by a number that is 16
bits wide, as seen above (for the basic plane), it would seem that all text
files would double in size, since the usual ASCII characters are 8 bits wide.
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<h2><a name="Unicode_encodings_UTF-8"></a>Unicode encodings, UTF-8</h2>
Since Unicode characters are generally represented by a number that is 16
bits wide, as seen above (for the basic plane), it would seem that all text
files would double in size, since the usual ASCII characters are 8 bits wide.