Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Painlessly shrinking kernel messages (Re: kernel support for non-english user messages) | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 11 Apr 2003 02:14:20 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 00:58, Timothy Miller wrote: > My google search for '5pack' didn't come up with anything relevant. > Things that come to mind include converting to a character set which
Its a thing from the old 8bit gaming world. You code in 5bit chunks with a leading length marker. 5bits is enough for a-z and some bits of punctuation, plus capital implying space and 'escape' for an 8bit sequence block.
Gets you a bit under 40% compression with real life data and takes about 200 bytes to decode
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