METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSION AND ENCODING OF UNICODE STRINGS

摘要

A method in a computer system (12, 16, 14, 18) examines a string (200) of two-byte characters and determines if the first byte in each of the two-byte characters (212, 216) is the same. If the first byte is the same in each of the two-byte characters (212, 216), the method converts the string of two-byte characters into a string (202) of one-byte values by removing the first byte of each of the two-byte characters. A designation value (206, 208) is then concatenated to the string of one-byte values to indicate the value of the first byte removed from each two-byte character.