Re: Unicode & space in programming & l10n

From: Richard Wordingham (richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2006 - 14:28:38 CDT

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Philippe Verdy wrote on Thursday, September 21, 2006 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: Unicode & space in programming & l10n

> However, what I am really wondering is why we need BOCU or SCSU, when
> general compresion algorithms (deflate,gzip...) have far more applications
> and can be used on many other things than just plain-text.

Because they're good for small amounts of text, like names and addresses,
especially in dynamic databases.

Richard.

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