At 10:44 PM 1/20/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Taking the extra links into account the sizes are: >English: 10.4 Kb >Devanagari: 15.0 Kb >Thus the Dev. page is 1.44 times the Eng. page. For sites providing archives >of documents/manuscripts (in plain text) in Devanagari, this factor could be >as high as approx. 3 using UTF-8 and around 1 using ISCII.
Yes, but that is this page only. Are you suggesting that all pages will vary by that factor? Of course not. Please consider whether the space *in practice* is a limiting factor. It seems that folks on the list feel it is not. Not for bandwidth limited applications, and not for disk space limited applications. The amount of space devoted to plain text of any language on a typical web page is microscopic compared tot he markup, images, sounds, and other files also associated with the web page. Are you suggesting that utf-8 ought to have been optimized for Devanagari text? Barry Caplan www.i18n.com <-- coming soon...
