On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 07:39:57PM -0500, Aman Chawla wrote:
: The point was that a UTF-8 encoded HTML file for an English web page
: carrying say 10 gifs would have a file size one-third that for a Devanagari
: web page with the same no. of gifs - even if you take into account the
: fluctuation of the typical length in characters, for expressing the same
: concept in different languages. This is because in some cases one language
: may express a concept more compactly while in other cases it may not, and on
: the whole this effect would balance out and can therefore be neglected.
: Therefore transmission of a Devanagari web page over a network would take
: thrice as long as that of an English web page using the same images and
: presenting the same information.
And the whole UTF-8 Devanagari page is probably still smaller than
even one of the .gif files.
-- Christopher Vance
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