On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Joakim <joakim@airpost.net> wrote:

On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 19:20:15 UTC, Marcin Mstowski wrote:

Character Data Representation
Architecture<http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/cdra/>by

IBM. It is what you want to do with additions and it is available
since
1995.
When you come up with an inventive idea, i suggest you to first check what
was already done in that area and then rethink this again to check if you
can do this better or improve existing solution. Other approaches are
usually waste of time and efforts, unless you are doing this for fun or you
can't use existing solutions due to problems with license, copyrights,
price, etc.

You might be right, but I gave it a quick look and can't make out what the encoding actually is. There is an appendix that lists several possible encodings, including UTF-8!

Yes, because they didn't reinvent wheel from scratch and are reusing existing encodings as a base. There isn't any problem with adding another code page.

Also, one of the first pages talks about representations of floating point and integer numbers, which are outside the purview of the text encodings we're talking about.

They are outside of scope of CDRA too. At least read picture description before making out of context assumptions.

I cannot possibly be expected to know about every dead format out there.

Nobody expect that.

If you can show that it is materially similar to my single-byte encoding idea, it might be worth looking into.

Spending ~15 min to read Introduction isn't worth your time, so why should i waste my time showing you anything ?