Text compression
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Text compression refers to techniques that allow fitting more text data into a smaller space.
Dictionary compression
Without recursion
With recursion
Dual-tile encoding
Dual-tile encoding, or DTE for short, is a special case of dictionary compression. It is also known as [byte-pair encoding], or digram coding. In this case, the dictionary strings are all two bytes long.
Bitrate reduction methods
Fixed-bit encoding
When the character set is small, such as 64 characters at most, strings could be encoded in a bitstream that packs 6 bits per character rather than 8 bits per character. This results in 20 % reduction of data size.
