On 19-Apr-02 Yves Arrouye wrote: >> If you can process SCSU, and would appreciate a 59% reduction in file >> size, try: >> >> http://home.adelphia.net/~dewell/th18057-scsu.txt (135,731 bytes) > > Not to knock down SCSU, but if it had been gzipped instead, the resulting > file would be about half that size: 70,912 bytes. (The gzipped SCSU-encoded > file is 57,987 itself).
With bzip2 the result is something I wouldn't have expected, when comparing to gzip. The original file would be 61840 bytes and the SCSU-file 61389 bytes. The difference is only 451 bytes. Does bzip2 do some kind of a SCSU by itself already? Best regards, Miikka-Markus Alhonen