On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 07:39:57PM -0500, Aman Chawla wrote: : The point was that a UTF-8 encoded HTML file for an English web page : carrying say 10 gifs would have a file size one-third that for a Devanagari : web page with the same no. of gifs - even if you take into account the : fluctuation of the typical length in characters, for expressing the same : concept in different languages. This is because in some cases one language : may express a concept more compactly while in other cases it may not, and on : the whole this effect would balance out and can therefore be neglected. : Therefore transmission of a Devanagari web page over a network would take : thrice as long as that of an English web page using the same images and : presenting the same information.
And the whole UTF-8 Devanagari page is probably still smaller than even one of the .gif files. -- Christopher Vance
