Re: Korean compression (was: Re: Ternary search trees for Unicode dictionaries)

[Peter Kirk]

On 24/11/2003 03:29, Kent Karlsson wrote:

...

I wonder why Hangul would need compression over and above
any other alphabetic script... It has already quite a lot of compression
in the form of precomposed syllables. I think we better start a project
for allocating precomposed "syllables" for many other scripts,
...

        No, this was not serious ;-)
        /kent k
 

This approach would certainly have simplified pointed Hebrew a lot, so 
much so that it could well be serious. After all, Ethiopic was encoded 
as a syllabary just because the vowel points happen to have become 
attached to the base characters. And we already have some precomposed 
Hebrew syllables, FB1D, FB1F, FB2E, FB2F. But I guess it is too late for 
a change now!

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