Technical Notes |
Version | 1 |
Author | Doug Ewell |
Date | 2004-01-30 |
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This document is a discussion of the various ways in which Unicode text can be compressed for storage and interchange. Several different approaches are examined and evaluated, including the Unicode "compression formats," SCSU and BOCU-1; general-purpose compression algorithms such as RLE, Huffman, and LZW; the use of multiple techniques to improve compression; and the effects of normalization on compression. A detailed description of a professional-grade SCSU encoding algorithm is included.
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