The Giga Character Set is a supposed display code scheme announced by Coventive Technologies in 2000. It 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. CJK can also stand for Centre Jeunes Kamenge. ... The term binary code can mean several different things: There are a variety of different methods of coding numbers or symbols into strings of bits, including fixed-length binary numbers, prefix codes such as Huffman codes, and other coding techniques including arithmetic coding. ... This article is about algorithms for encryption and decryption. ... The term natural language is used to distinguish languages spoken by humans for general-purpose communication from constructs such as computer-programming languages or the languages used in the study of formal logic, especially mathematical logic. ... A bit (abbreviated b) is the most basic information unit used in computing and information theory. ... In computing, Unicode provides an international standard which has the goal of providing the means to encode the text of every document people want to store on computers. ...
As of 2005, Coventive has never published the details of Giga Character Set for examination, nor has it ever been implemented in any publicly available application.
The GigaCharacterSet 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.
Most people involved with charactersets 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.
It is the explicit aim of Unicode to transcend the limitations of traditional character encodings such as those defined by the ISO 8859 standard, which are used in the various countries of the world, but are largely incompatible with each other.
Furthermore, ranges of characters have been tentatively blocked out for every known unencoded script (see [1]), and while Unicode may need another plane for ideographic characters, there are ten planes that could only be needed if previously unknown scripts with tens of thousands of characters are discovered.
MIME defines two different mechanisms for encoding non-ASCII characters in e-mail, depending on whether the characters are in e-mail headers such as the "Subject:" or in the text body of the message.
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