Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xml-dev Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - But is it fair? - An exploration of alphabets and ideograms [Thread Next] RE: [xml-dev] But is it fair? - An exploration of alphabets and ideogramsTo: <xml-dev@-----.---.---> Date: 3/4/2005 7:10:00 PM William J. Kammerer wrote: > But then is it "fair" that English requires a whopping 19 bytes to > transmit "microencephalopathy," or even 13 bytes for the Germanic > "pinheadedness," when there's probably an efficient ideogram or two > (requiring only 6 to 8 bytes total) for the same concept in Chinese? Recent compression breakthroughs have tilted the fairness scale back towards English: "m17n" or "p11s" can whoop even a single ideogram. /Jelks | ||||||
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