Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: unicode (char as abstract data type) | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | Date | 20 Apr 1998 07:49:29 -0700 |
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"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Those who prefer charset labeling (such as Alex Belits) are worried > about encoding efficiency (especially Alex who doesn't like the fact > that Russian didn't get some of the 1 byte UTF-8 assignments.) This is > certainly a consideration.
Only until you were willing to spend some time looking for alternatives. Russian and many other languages which use alphabets can be encoded very efficiently using the (formerly so called) Reuters compression scheme. See Unicode TR #6.
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