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Lossless Compression Handbook
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Lossless Compression Handbook

by Khalid Sayood
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
454 pages
25h 39m
English
Academic Press
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CHAPTER 14 / COMPRESSION OF UNICODE FILES
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Table 14.3 UCS-2 and UTF-8 Coding
Data Bits Input Bit Pattern (UCS-2)
Coding into Successive Bytes (UTF-8)
7
11
16
0000 0000 Oabc defg
0000 Oabc defg hijk
abcd efgh ijkl mnop
Oabc defg
llOa bcde lOfg hijk
iii0 abcd lOef ghij lOkl mop
A text string in UCS-2 may, when converted to UTF-8,
1. contract if it contains mostly ASCII characters,
2. remain essentially the same size if it is mostly Cyrillic, Hebrew, or Arabic, or
3. expand if it is predominately some Asian alphabet.
14.3 COMPRESSION OF UNICODE
A Unicode file is a sequence of characters in either UCS-2 or UTF-8 ...
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ISBN: 9780126208610