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Arabic Text Lossless Compression by Characters Encoding

2019; Elsevier BV; Volume: 155; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.procs.2019.08.087

1877-0509

Tariq Abu Hilal, Hasan Abu Hilal,

DNA and Biological Computing

The aim of this paper is to suggest a new sequential encoding technique that efficiently converts Arabic characters string from UTF-8 to ANSI characters coding. The encoding algorithm presented in this paper significantly reduces the file size. The decoding method transforms the encoded ANSI string back to its original format. Unlike the one-byte ANSI characters, Arabic alphabets are currently being stored in 2 bytes size which leads to inefficient space utilization. The newly developed sequential encoding technique reduces the space required for storage up to fifty percent. In addition, the proposed technique will retain the Arabic encoded text to its original form after decoding, which is leading to a lossless text compression. Thus, addressing the common concern of the currently available Arabic characters compression techniques.