Make a encoding standard like Unicode

Posted by Ujjwol on Friday July 02, 2010 @12:13AM
from the self-post dept.

Guys, what does it takes to make a new encoding standard like Unicode ? I am ready to learn anything for that. In how many years do you think the project will finish as one man project ?

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Re:Make a encoding standard like Unicode by Quasimofo on Friday July 02, 2010 @12:46AM (#1480202)

Do you mean a universal encoding format for any printable glyph?

Well, it's a helluva lot of language research to start with. I guess you could cheat by just copying the Unicode code pages, but then you haven't really accomplished much.

Or do you mean a new Unicode Transformation Format? That may well be a fun exercise, but you'd need to have a clear idea of the problem you're solving. 7-bit gateways? Fast compression? Fast decompression? Favors common glyphs at the expense of rare ones? Random access versus stream decoding?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_Transformation_Format

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Re:Make a encoding standard like Unicode by amock on Friday July 02, 2010 @12:43AM (#1480194)

What kind of encoding standard? Creating the standard isn't the hard part, but getting it used by other people could be very difficult or very easy depending on what it is.

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