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Re: [RFC] Statistics of non-ASCII characters in strings

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, Wilco Dijkstra <wdijkstr at arm dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 08:46:15 -0800
Subject: Re: [RFC] Statistics of non-ASCII characters in strings
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Carlos O'Donell wrote:

I don't know that anyone has this data.

Martin v. LÃwis gathered this data for a Django application, back when thePython folks were changing the representation of Unicode strings. For what it'sworth, in that application 98.6% of strings were all ASCII, and 99.1% ofcharacters were ASCII. See:


https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0393/

References:
- [RFC] Statistics of non-ASCII characters in strings
  - From: Wilco Dijkstra
- Re: [RFC] Statistics of non-ASCII characters in strings
  - From: Carlos O'Donell

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