Re: Subj: Amount of Space Unicode Takes

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@roadrunner.com)
Date: Tue Jul 17 2007 - 00:11:56 CDT

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    Daniel Johnson <dbjohnson88 at hotmail dot com> wrote:

    > I have a question about how much space Unicode takes up. I am working
    > on a HTML project in multiple languages. Each of these web pages have
    > to be stored on a chip with limited space. Is there any way to
    > "compact" the HTML scripts in order to save space on the chip? Or is
    > there a different call number for a character which will take up less
    > space in hex? It would be greatly appreciated if the email was
    > answered.

    Naturally, I can't let this topic go without putting in a plug for UTN
    #14, "A Survey of Unicode Compression." There might be something in
    there that Daniel can use.

    http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn14/UnicodeCompression.pdf

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