I guess I need to learn to read a little more carefully. My apologies. However, I must take one final whack at this dead horse. The fact that the identifiers have English characters doesn't mean that the app displaying these values isn't displaying them in another language. (I know, why would anyone display identifiers, but the fact is, they often do.)

I figured I would get the answer wrong because I do tend to think from a practical point of view and not based on a discussion of the internals in BOL. I also figured this debate would be interesting and I would learn something so I'm glad I got a chance to engage.

I suppose that if I want questions that are less ambiguous I should submit them myself. 🙂

It's interesting to note that roughly 75% of us answered it "wrong" so perhaps questioning the scope of what constitutes "efficiency" isn't that far off base.