On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 19:20:15 UTC, Marcin Mstowski wrote:
Character Data Representation
Architecture<http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/cdra/>by
IBM. It is what you want to do with additions and it is
available
since
1995.
When you come up with an inventive idea, i suggest you to first
check what
was already done in that area and then rethink this again to
check if you
can do this better or improve existing solution. Other
approaches are
usually waste of time and efforts, unless you are doing this
for fun or you
can't use existing solutions due to problems with license,
copyrights,
price, etc.
You might be right, but I gave it a quick look and can't make out
what the encoding actually is. There is an appendix that lists
several possible encodings, including UTF-8!
Also, one of the first pages talks about representations of
floating point and integer numbers, which are outside the purview
of the text encodings we're talking about. I cannot possibly be
expected to know about every dead format out there. If you can
show that it is materially similar to my single-byte encoding
idea, it might be worth looking into.
