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Giga Character Set

The Giga Character Set is a display code scheme created by Coventive Technologies, which claims to overcome Unicode's perceived CJKV flaws. Instead of assigning binary codes to characters, GCS is a set of encryption algorithms (one per language) that are used to transition between natural language characters and computer bits. GCS also claims to be faster and require less memory than Unicode because it derives characters rather than looking them up. Most people involved with character sets find most of these claims seem rather unlikely, as there is just not that much slop in current systems to improve by the orders of magnitude GCS claims. Coventive has never published the details of Giga Character Set for examination.

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