Method and apparatus for compression and encoding of unicode strings

摘要

A method in a computer system examines a string of two-byte characters and determines if the first byte in each of the two-byte characters is the same. If the first byte is the same in each of the two- byte characters, the method converts the string of two-byte characters into a string of one-byte values by removing the first byte of each of the two- byte characters. A designation value is then concatenated to the string of one-byte values to indicate the value of the first byte removed from each two-byte character.