Stewart Stremler wrote:
begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 06:19:27PM -0700:
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Umm ... how you gonna map 128 codes to the 3,000 or so characters that,
say, simplified Mandarin needs?
String 'em together to form words.
How is this different from what actually happens with UTF-8?
Otherwise, we might as well demand that a simplified english dictionary
be included so we don't have to waste all that space using several
characters to encode a word rather than just one like most people do.
Hmm... you seem to be expressing some weird compactness property to a
"character". Coming up with a character for each word in some simplified
english dictionary is going to demand a larger character size. The end
result isn't necessarily larger or smaller.
--Chris
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