Re: Long-term archiving of electronic text documents

On 01/28/2013 07:30 AM, William_J_G Overington wrote:
> A document saved as UTF-64 may well take four times as many bytes as such a Unicode Text Document, yet there would be the error checking and correction facilities at a character level.
>
It seems to me that the character-encoding level is the wrong one for
adding error-correction. That isn't Plain Text. Surely there are
already protocols for encoding data with error-correcting codes, if only
the ones we use for transmission of data. This sounds like a transform
that should be applied separately from character encoding.

~mark
Received on Mon Jan 28 2013 - 18:10:33 CST