"Tim Finney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This would reduce the > bandwidth necessary to send text.
Would it really? Ignoring all the other details (being limited to English, for one), would words that might take up to six bytes in UTF-8 really compete with the normal encoding, with most words taking less than that? And that's for uncompressed text; if space was really such a concern, you'd be compressing the text, so you need to compare bzip2 or gzip or whatever the new compression is on UTF-8 to this encoding, which would even it up quite a bit, if past results mean anything. Storing a table of several million words to convert text from the keyboard to this encoding is going to be eating up a lot of space, and many places where smaller text sizes would be important wouldn't want to include 8 MB of data and a CPU powerful to quickly compress and decompress from this format. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
