On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 02:01:28PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 10:30:26 +0800, shigang wrote:
> > I have a pixmap file which have 256 grey colors. Because of using ASCII
> > code, each pixel is
> >
> > descibed by two characters. This make xpm file as twice larger as raw data
> > file.
> >
> > Can someone tell me how to encode xpm file so each byte can instead a
> > pixel?
>
> It can't be done: ASCII is a 7 bit character set, 256 colors needs 8 bits,
> so you need two bytes to encode it.
what about using some kind of 8bit ASCII encoding, like latin1 for example ?
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
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