Coding systems are political (was Exended ASCII and code pages)
Christian Gollwitzer
auriocus at gmx.de
Sun May 29 16:29:10 EDT 2016
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
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