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SCSU does have the advantage that it can usefully compress texts that are only a few characters long, whereas most full-scale compressors need hundreds of bytes of data to break even against their own overhead. In [[Symbian OS]], SCSU is used even for Clipboard operations, e.g. Cut, Copy & Paste of small strings of text.
SCSU could have been very useful for SMS text messages, where users of cyrillic and other alphabets can write only 80 characters in the 160 bytes. Users sometimes resort to a romanized (ASCII) transliteration as an effective compression scheme. Ultimately, however, the extremely high cost of SMS messages relative to their binary payload is an economic problem, not a technological one.
==See also==
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