Re: length of text by different languages

[Yung-Fong Tang]

Ram Viswanadha wrote:

There is also some information at

http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/docs/papers/binary_ordered_compression_for_unicode.html#Test_Results

 

Not sure if this is what you are looking for.

 

thanks. not really. I am not look into the ratio caused by encoding. But rather the ratio caused by language itself. For example, in order to communicate the idea "I want to eat chicken for dinner tonight", French, German using the same encoding may use different number of characters to communicate the same "IDEA".
Misha's paper help a lot. but unfortunately it lack of japanese and German data.