Fwd: Re: Unicode, SMS and year 2012

2012-04-28 Thread anbu
Please note some correction and additions in the comparison of the values My design provides the following number values for the specified number of bits: 8 bits - 128 values (Cumulative: 128 values) 10 bits - 192 values (Cumulative: 320 values) 12 bits - 512 values (Cumulative: 832 values) 14

Re: Fwd: Re: Unicode, SMS and year 2012

2012-04-28 Thread Doug Ewell
anbu at peoplestring dot com wrote: This clearly shows that my design yields number of values more than double that of UTF8 I didn't know we were competing against UTF-8 on efficiency. That's easy. UTF-8 is not at all guaranteed to be the most efficient encoding possible, or even reasonably

Re: Fwd: Re: Unicode, SMS and year 2012

2012-04-28 Thread anbu
There are many reasons why a new encoding that is merely more efficient than UTF-8, especially one that sacrifices byte-based processing or other design features, will face a severe uphill battle in trying to displace UTF-8. What are some of the reasons a new encoding will face? On Sat,

Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Unicode, SMS and year 2012

2012-04-28 Thread anbu
The question shall read as: What are some of the reasons a new encoding will face challenges? Original Message Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Unicode, SMS and year 2012 Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:32:47 -0400 From: a...@peoplestring.com To: d...@ewellic.org There are many reasons why

Re: Fwd: Re: Unicode, SMS and year 2012

2012-04-28 Thread Doug Ewell
On Friday, April 27, anbu at peoplestring dot com wrote: In addition I had a few more questions, of which the one below is the most significant: What if one had to send a text in multiple scripts, like in the case of a text and its translation in the same message? I thought maybe a new

Fwd: Re: Unicode, SMS and year 2012

2012-04-27 Thread anbu
Please note the following corrections to the mail below: The number of codes supported with a given number of bits, n, is given by: [2 ^ (n ÷ 2)] [n - 4] The total number of codes supported with a given number of bits, n, and all the number of bits less than it is given by: 3 [2 ^ (n ÷ 2)] [n -

Fwd: Re: Unicode, SMS and year 2012

2012-04-27 Thread anbu
Subject: Fwd: Re: Unicode, SMS and year 2012 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:14:13 -0400 From: a...@peoplestring.com To: or...@secarica.ro, unicode@unicode.org Please note the following corrections to the mail below: The number of codes supported with a given number of bits, n, is given by: [2 ^ (n