From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sat Dec 06 2003 - 02:29:46 EST
Mark Davis <mark dot davis at jtcsv dot com> wrote:
> Think you are missing a negative, see below.
>
>> Compression techniques may optionally replace certain sequences with
>> canonically equivalent sequences to improve efficiency, but *only* if
>> the output of the decompressed text is expected to be
> is not required to be
>> codepoint-for-codepoint equivalent to the original. Whether this is
>> true or not depends on the user and the intended use of the text.
That's one of those fun side effects of going back and tinkering with a
paragraph 99 times before hitting the Send button..
Of course Mark's text is what I meant to say.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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