From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 06:51:38 EDT
Marco Cimarosti scripsit:
> Talking about the format of mapping tables, I always wondered why not using
> ranges. In the case of ISO 8859-11, the table would become as compact as
> three lines:
Well, that wins for 8859-1 and 8859-11 and ISCII-88, where Unicode
copied existing layouts precisely. But it wouldn't help other 8859-x
much if at all, and it requires binary search rather than direct
array access, which would be a terrible lossage in CJK, where the
real costs are.
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