Re: gzip/deflate compression/encoding
"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.rfc822 |
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In <[email protected]> [email protected] writes: >> Are the usual audio, image, etc. formats truly 8bit clean (i.e. are they >> guaranteed not to contain NUL or naked CR or LF)? >Of course they aren't. Yes, that's what I thought. >> If not, then you are >> back to the 37+% expansion of base64. >Doesn't follow. A binary-to-8bit encoding has enough characters available that >the overhead can be limited to at most 1-2%. Sure, but there is no currently recognized/standardized encoding with that property (except for yEnc, which I don't think is a serious candidate yet). -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Fax: +44 161 436 6133 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: [email protected] Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5