Re: ASCII to ASCII compression.

On 2024-06-06, Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> wrote:

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Not strictly a C programming question, but smart people will see the
relavance to the topicality, which is portability.
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Is there a compresiion algorthim which converts human language ASCII
text to compressed ASCII, preferably only "isgraph" characters?
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So "Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow".
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Would become
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QWE£$543GtT£$"||x|VVBB?

That could be any algorithm, followed by encoding of binary data
to ASCII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-to-text_encoding

That page has a table of various schemes and their packing density.

Some like Base91 or Base94 use almost all the printable characters
and have better than 80% coding efficiency.



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