Coding systems are political (was Exended ASCII and code pages)

[Christian Gollwitzer]

Am 29.05.16 um 20:46 schrieb Terry Reedy:
> On 5/29/2016 2:12 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> I also note that in English text, a (phoneme) char conveys
> about 6 bits of information,

6 bits for a letter of English? That is way too much. Claude Shannon 
estimated something between 1 and 2 bits. You can try for yourself here:

http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~crypto/java/ENTROPY/

	Christian