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The '''Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode''' (SCSU) is a [[Unicode]] Technical Standard to reduce the number of [[byte]]s needed to represent text, especially if that text uses mostly characters from a small number of Unicode blocks. It does so by dynamically mapping the values in the range 128-255 to blocks of 128 characters. Since most alphabets are in 128 contiguous Unicode codepoints, this allows for 1 byte per character (plus overhead) encoding for many text files. SCSU will also switch to UTF-16 internally to handle non-alphabetic languages.