Taking the extra links into account the sizes are:
English: 10.4 Kb
Devanagari: 15.0 Kb
Thus the Dev. page is 1.44 times the Eng. page. For sites providing archives
of documents/manuscripts (in plain text) in Devanagari, this factor could be
as high as approx. 3 using UTF-8 and around 1 using ISCII.
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Kass" <jameskass@worldnet.att.net>
To: <DougEwell2@cs.com>; <unicode@unicode.org>
Cc: <creativezeal@hotmail.com>; <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: Devanagari
>
> Doug Ewell wrote,
>
> >
> > I think before worrying about the performance and storage effect on Web
pages
> > due to UTF-8, it might help to do some profiling and see what the actual
> > impact is.
> >
>
> The "What is Unicode?" pages offer a quick study.
>
> 14808 bytes (English)
> 15218 bytes (Hindi)
> 10808 bytes (Danish)
> 11281 bytes (French)
> 9682 bytes (Chinese Trad.)
>
> (The English page includes links to all the other scripts, but the
individual
> script pages only link back to the English page. So, the English page is
a
> bit larger than the other pages for this reason, not a fair test if we
only
> count the English and Hindi pages.)
>
> The Unicode logo gif at the top left corner of each of these pages takes
> 1111 bytes. A screen shot of the beginning of the Hindi page takes
> 37569 bytes as a gif, the small portion cropped and attached takes
> 4939 bytes.
>
> The "What is Unicode?" pages are at:
> http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html
>
> Best regards,
>
> James Kass.
>
>
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