Hello Adam, At 18:31 01/10/20 -0700, Adam M. Costello wrote:
>The situation is much worse for Korean. I think each Hangul character >carries the information of only about 1.5 English letters, It may be lower than Chinese, but I'm very surprised it should be that low. Any pointers to sources? Are they for running text, or for names? For running text, Korean uses spaces, but Chinese doesn't, so that already could explain quite a bit of the difference. >but still >takes about 2.9 octets in AMC-ACE-Z, which means a maximal Korean domain >label (20 hangul) holds about as much information as a 30-letter English >string. Of all the languages I've looked at, Korean is by far the least >dense when encoded using AMC-ACE-Z. Even if this were true, a 30-letter limit in English would still be nothing really bad in actual practice. Regards, Martin.
