Re: low entropy text

[mskala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Dennis wrote:
> > "bello/nero", "sotto/notte"); and partly the use of digraphs for some
> > phonemes ("sci" for "sh", "gi" for "j", etc.).
> 
> 	This isn't terribly lossy.  English orthography is far
> worse, in every respect.

But in English there are often many ways to spell the same sound, and I
think that would tend to drive the entropy up.  For low entropy, it should
be lossy but *consistent*.

Matthew Skala
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