On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Asmus Freytag wrote:
> At 05:38 PM 7/22/99 -0700, Gary Roberts wrote:
>
> I wonder why you don't support SCSU. You can actually get more compact
> Japanese (relative to Shift-JIS, UTF-16 and UTF-8), with not much more
> computation that for UTF-8 - as long as you can live with unpacking the
> data into UTF-16 during processing, as many people do with UTF-8. (SCSU is
> stateful and not self-synchronizing like UTF-8, therefore doesn't suport
> random access into the middle of a field.).
> >
> SCSU = Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode. See unicode report 6 for
> details: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr6
>
> A./
Various compression schemes are being considered for future releases
(i.e. we agree with Gianni, although not about the cost of high
performance disk drives). I'll remind the folks looking into this about
SCSU. It is a good suggestion.
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