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Soobok Lee wrote:
> From: "Martin Duerst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > >1) saturations in TLD namespaces would require longer names for which
> > >     REORDERING is designed to give greater benefits/compression ratio.
> >
> > No. What James referred to is that saturation tends to fill up the
> > short name slots, and thus flatten the probability distribution.
> > I.e. if somebody doesn't get the name they wanted, the chance is
> > that they go for something like xq.com, because it's easy to
> > remember because it's short. Neither x nor q are very frequent
> > letters.
> 
> Han/hangeul characters carries meanings while latin alphabets
> denote phonemes.

?? Unless I'm very confused about Hangul, it is at least as much
phonetically-based as Latin. Hangul Jamo are letters of an alphabet,
which happen to be arranged in square cells corresponding to syllables,
instead of linearly.

Moreover, each Hangul syllable (encoded as a single character when
NFC/NFKC-normalised), normally represents 3 Jamo. That should be taken
into account when assessing whether Hangul is encoded compactly enough.

> Therefore your analogy between latin and han domains
> may be false. Chinese people would rather choose to register
> digit-added variants of already taken desired domains in saturated
> ML.com, instead of choosing non-sense irrelevant rare han characters.
> 
> Later time, I will provide some proofs that SC and TC only have
> small partial set of frequent characters.

That's not in dispute. The argument is about whether the complexity of
reordering is worth the additional compression. IMHO it isn't -
AMC-Z (or UTF-8) encodings are sufficiently compact that the 63-octet
and 255-octet limits are not a serious problem for any language or script,
and the savings for average names are marginal.

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