When I mentioned that a character format could be slower than a binary format, you said the binary approach makes things harder to maintain in the name of efficiency.

当我提到字符格式 要比二进制码格式慢时，你说，从效率的角度来看，二进制代码格式使得软件更加难以维护。

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UTF-8 was chosen as the default format for character data columns, with UTF-16 for graphic data columns.

UTF - 8被选择为字符数据列的默认格式，其中U TF - 16用于图形数据列。

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Remember that UTF-8 encodes data an a variable-length format; the Unicode character at position 450 simply needed two bytes to be encoded in UTF-8.

记住 UTF-8 编码的数据是可变长的格式；450 处的 Unicode 字符在使用 UTF-8 进行编码时实际上只需要两个字节。

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