In a message dated 2002-01-20 20:49:00 Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Usually, when someone offers > a large body of plain text in any script, files are compressed > in one way or another in order to speed up downloads. This is why I really wish that SCSU were considered a truly "standard" encoding scheme. Even among the Unicode cognoscenti it is usually accompanied by disclaimers about "private agreement only" and "not suitable for use on the Internet," where the former claim is only true because of the self-perpetuating obscurity of SCSU and the latter seems completely unjustified. Devanagari text encoded in SCSU occupies exactly 1 byte per character, plus an additional byte near the start of the file to set the current window (0x14 = SC4). -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
