In a message dated 2001-07-12 8:27:20 Pacific Daylight Time,
unicode@abyssiniacybergateway.net writes:
> The Ethiopian News Headlines has relocated to a new server at
> http://www.ethiozena.net/ and is making it easier than ever to
> read news headlines in Unicode. A companion Unicode only server
> is launched at http://unicode.ethiozena.net/ which serves
> articles in UTF-8 encoding only.
As a test, I downloaded the first article on the page:
http://unicode.ethiozena.net/Gazettas/Kibrit/Archives/1993/Hamle/05/Kibrit.051
193.sera.html
The article, dated 1993-05-11, has the formidable title:
«p-t negaso gidada wedeTalyan kobelelu teblo yeteseraCew zegeba f`Sum Heset
new» yeTalyan Embasi
Encoded in UTF-8, the file was 1891 bytes long. Converted into SCSU, it
dropped to 1121 bytes, which is 40% shorter than the UTF-8 version, better
than UTF-16, and probably better than any existing legacy encoding for
Ethiopic. SCSU is a Good Thing.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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