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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 23:54:00 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:16:38 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:

> Instead of relying on generic compression techniques, he took advantage
> of the properties of the data and developed a compression algorithm that
> came within 0.03 bits of the theoretical limit of possible compression.
> To this day, it remains unbeaten.

All of which only worked for the English language (US).

What happened when they had to support other languages?