Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode: Difference between revisions

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gzip (to give one counterexample) does not need kilobytes; I have just compressed an e-mail conversation from 713B to 468B, in UTF-8, using gzip's default -6 compression level
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|date=2004-01-30 |first=Doug |last=Ewell |accessdate=2008-06-13 |format=PDF }}</ref> often dramatically so.
 
SCSU does have the advantage that it can usefully compress texts that are only a few characters long, whereas most full-scale compressors need ahundreds fewof kilobytesbytes of data to break even against their own overhead.
 
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