Name: bb33257 Date: 10/26/99


The traditional general-purpose data compression schemes
(for example Huffman or LZW) are effective, but for best results
they require considerable context. The compression scheme outlined
in UTR#6 compresses Unicode text into a sequence of bytes by taking
advantage of the characteristics of Unicode text. The resulting
compressed sequence can be used on its own or as further input to a
general-purpose file or disk-block based compression scheme. The
latter achieves even better compression than either method alone.
(Review ID: 97063)

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