From: NAME: Misha Wolf
TEL: + 44 171 510 6722
ADDR: London, England <M_WOLF@AM@REC>
To: NAME: Unicore <in%"richsun!uunet.uu.net!unicode.org!unicore"@rcssob@mrgate>,
NAME: Unicode <in%"richsun!uunet.uu.net!unicode.org!unicode"@rcssob@mrgate>
I wrote:
| Does anyone know of a supplier with Unicode-capable compression software?
John Bennett replied:
| What type of compression are you looking for? Most file compressers should
| just work on Unicode files (though they may not save as much as a Unicode
| specific compressor). If you want a compression subroutine, the source code
| for a quick simple compressor is in the procedings of a UIW (I don't
| remember which). You can also ask me about it, since it was my paper. The
| paper also talks about other compressions, but I don't know of anyone
| implementing them. In fact the only implementation of a Unicode specific
| compression that I know about is in the (now defunct) PenPoint OS, which
| uses the code given in the paper.
I had assumed that traditional compression algorithms looked for repeats
on an 8-bit basis and, hence, would fail to compress Unicode. Is this
assumption correct/incorrect?
John - Please do send me your paper.
Many thanks.
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