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Yonik Seeley commented on LUCENE-1799:
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bq. in general you wont get much compression for chinese.. id say max 25%

Ah, OK.
I just tried russian w/ whitespace analyzer used to split and did get a good 
size savings:

UTF8_size=11056  BOCU-1_size=6810  BOCU-1_slowdown=32%

> Unicode compression
> -------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-1799
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1799
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Store
>    Affects Versions: 2.4.1
>            Reporter: DM Smith
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: Benchmark.java, LUCENE-1779.patch, LUCENE-1799.patch, 
> LUCENE-1799.patch, LUCENE-1799.patch, LUCENE-1799.patch, LUCENE-1799.patch, 
> LUCENE-1799.patch, LUCENE-1799.patch, LUCENE-1799.patch, LUCENE-1799.patch, 
> LUCENE-1799.patch, LUCENE-1799.patch, LUCENE-1799.patch, LUCENE-1799.patch, 
> LUCENE-1799.patch, LUCENE-1799_big.patch
>
>
> In lucene-1793, there is the off-topic suggestion to provide compression of 
> Unicode data. The motivation was a custom encoding in a Russian analyzer. The 
> original supposition was that it provided a more compact index.
> This led to the comment that a different or compressed encoding would be a 
> generally useful feature. 
> BOCU-1 was suggested as a possibility. This is a patented algorithm by IBM 
> with an implementation in ICU. If Lucene provide it's own implementation a 
> freely avIlable, royalty-free license would need to be obtained.
> SCSU is another Unicode compression algorithm that could be used. 
> An advantage of these methods is that they work on the whole of Unicode. If 
> that is not needed an encoding such as iso8859-1 (or whatever covers the 
> input) could be used.    

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