Re: zipping strings

[Krux02]

I can only second what jibal said. Your question was wrong, you should have 
asked for ASCII not UTF8. But I highly discourage you to do so, unless you are 
writing a toy ascii art editor, where vertical alignment is important, and you 
don't want to deal with varaying lengths in utf8. But even then you might be 
easier of by using utf32. The extra 3 byte per char won't kill you. In all 
other situations, please learn to use utf8 properly.