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From: Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] utf-8
Date: Sun,  7 Feb 2016 05:42:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJSxfmJZD1g73UhDfvjuR8tqfNcBLdOatTuWjeDAfym0OsU9Wg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJQxxw=ypHYnswJc52SUo6J=w6O9zdSw38TEa4K61MEb2mXLBA@mail.gmail.com>

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but following that line of reasoning, aren't they all specialized versions
of Huffman encoding?


On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 6:04 PM Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> wrote:

> Not to burst a balloon but check out variable length ints in the Midi File
> Format for utf-8 in the early 80s.
>
> brucee
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-07  5:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-07  2:04 Bruce Ellis
2016-02-07  5:42 ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2016-02-08  1:09   ` Bruce Ellis
2016-02-08 13:48     ` Anthony Sorace

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