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Subject: Re: ASCII to ASCII compression.
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 20:02:55 +0300
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On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 17:55:58 +0100
bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:

> On 06/06/2024 17:25, Malcolm McLean wrote:
> >=20
> > Not strictly a C programming question, but smart people will see
> > the relavance to the topicality, which is portability.
> >=20
> > Is there a compresiion algorthim which converts human language
> > ASCII text to compressed ASCII, preferably only "isgraph"
> > characters?
> >=20
> > So "Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow".
> >=20
> > Would become
> >=20
> > QWE=C2=A3$543GtT=C2=A3$"||x|VVBB? =20
>=20
> What's the problem with compressing to binary (using existing,
> efficient utilities), then turning that binary into ASCII (like Mime
> or Base64)?
>=20

Or, if we want to make a job just a little bit more interesting, we can
convert to base94, producing ~9% smaller size than base94 :-)