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Unishox: A hybrid encoder for Short Unicode Strings

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Unishox is a hybrid encoding technique with which short unicode strings could be compressed using context aware pre-mapped codes and delta coding resulting in surprisingly good ratios. This article discusses a hybrid encoding method for compressing Short Unicode Strings of arbitrary lengths including Latin/English text and printable special characters. This has not been sufficiently addressed by lossless short text encoding methods so far as they have one or more of the following drawbacks:

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10.21105/joss.03919
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W3200386359
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The Journal of Open Source Software
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