From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264288AbTDKCA4 (for ); Thu, 10 Apr 2003 22:00:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264289AbTDKCA4 (for ); Thu, 10 Apr 2003 22:00:56 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:4518 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264288AbTDKCA4 (for ); Thu, 10 Apr 2003 22:00:56 -0400 Subject: Re: Painlessly shrinking kernel messages (Re: kernel support for non-english user messages) From: Alan Cox To: Timothy Miller Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <3E960536.5010900@techsource.com> References: <3E95EB6D.4020004@techsource.com> <1050010963.12494.132.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3E960536.5010900@techsource.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1050023659.13456.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 11 Apr 2003 02:14:20 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 00:58, Timothy Miller wrote: > My google search for '5pack' didn't come up with anything relevant. > Things that come to mind include converting to a character set which Its a thing from the old 8bit gaming world. You code in 5bit chunks with a leading length marker. 5bits is enough for a-z and some bits of punctuation, plus capital implying space and 'escape' for an 8bit sequence block. Gets you a bit under 40% compression with real life data and takes about 200 bytes to decode