RE: Devanagari

From: Christopher J Fynn (cfynn@druknet.net.bt)
Date: Mon Jan 21 2002 - 12:59:38 EST

Aman

Here in Bhutan the Internet connection is still much worse than in most
places I've visited in India & Nepal (and the cost per minute is several
times higher) - believe me even then UTF-8 (or UTF-16) encoded pages do not
display noticeably slower than ASCII, ISCII or 8-bit font encoded pages -
and I don't need to download any special plug-ins or fonts.

- Chris 

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Christopher J Fynn
Thimphu, Bhutan

<cfynn@druknet.net.bt>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
> Behalf Of Aman Chawla
> Sent: 21 January 2002 10:57
> To: James Kass; Unicode
> Subject: Re: Devanagari
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Kass" <jameskass@worldnet.att.net>
> To: "Aman Chawla" <creativezeal@hotmail.com>; "Unicode"
> <unicode@unicode.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 12:46 AM
> Subject: Re: Devanagari
>
>
> > 25% may not be 300%, but it isn't insignificant.  As you note, if the
> > mark-up were removed from both of those files, the percentage of
> > increase would be slightly higher.  But, as connection speeds continue
> > to improve, these differences are becoming almost minuscule.
>
> With regards to South Asia, where the most widely used modems are
> approx. 14
> kbps, maybe some 36 kbps and rarely 56 kbps, where broadband/DSL is mostly
> unheard of, efficiency in data transmission is of paramount importance...
> how can we convince the south asian user to create websites in an encoding
> that would make his client's 14 kbps modem as effective (rather,
> ineffective) as a 4.6 kbps modem?
>

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