Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode: Difference between revisions

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[[Reuters]], the organization that floated the first draft of SCSU, is believed to use SCSU internally.

[[Microsoft SQL Server|SQL Server 2008 R2]] uses SCSU to compress Unicode values stored in ''nchar(n)'' and ''nvarchar(n)'' columns, achieving space savings between 15% and 50%, depending on the language of the data. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee240835(SQL.105).aspx|title=Unicode Compression Implementation (SQL Server 2008 R2 Books Online)|accessdate=2008-08-18}}</ref>

== Comparison with external compression schemes ==