ENHANCED COMPRESSION, ENCODING, AND NAMING FOR RESOURCE STRINGS

摘要

Technology is disclosed herein for compressing, encoding, and otherwise reducing the size of resource files. In at least one implementation, similarity compression is employed to reduce the size of a resource file. In another implementation, map-less encoding is employed to reduce the number of bytes used to represent a resource string. Bit-level compression is employed in another implementation to reduce the quantity of bits used to encode each character in a string. In addition, implementations are disclosed related to technology for naming strings and accelerated string location and retrieval.

主权项

1. A method to facilitate enhanced resource file compression comprising:
ordering a set of resource strings in a resource file to produce an ordered set of resource strings in the resource file, wherein each of the ordered set of resource strings comprises a set of characters; and reducing a size of the resource file by, for any resource string of the ordered set of resource strings that qualifies for map-less encoding, at least: identifying a double-byte Unicode representation of each character in the set of characters in the resource string, wherein the double-byte Unicode representation comprises a lower byte and an upper byte; identifying at least one character in the set of characters for which the upper byte of the one character comprises a non-zero value, wherein the non-zero value indicates an occurrence of non-Latin characters; setting a value of an encoding byte to the non-zero value and retaining the encoding byte in the resource file to reflect the occurrence of the non-Latin characters; discarding the upper byte from the resource file for each of the set of characters; and retaining the lower byte in the resource file for each of the set of characters.