Andrew>It needs to contain a substantial implementation plan Here's an implementation plan, again, quoted from the very same mail:
Vladimir>Of course both variations above fail to support streaming Vladimir> (as in "need to process all the contents in order to get the last character"), so it might be better to use Vladimir>"prefix that specifies encoding + 'index block' (that specifies offsets for each 1M characters) + encoded string". It does describe the data structure. Andrew>what APIS I believe it does not matter much. However, it might be similar to the existing LO APIs, except the indices are in characters rather than bytes. Andrew>protocol changes None. Andrew>and so on Well, it looks like I had everything you mentioned in the very first email. Vladimir
