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Comment by longhaul

Why can’t browsers/servers just store a standard English dictionary and communicate via indexes?. Anything that isn’t in the dictionary can be sent raw. I’ve always had this thought but don’t see why it isn’t implemented. Might get a bit more involved with other languages but the principle remains the same.

Thinking about it a bit more, we are doing this at the character level- a Unicode table, so why can’t we lookup words or maybe even common sentences ?

parent longhaul 1 year ago

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