https://github.com/gbaraldi/unishox.jl

Julia package for the unishox string compression library
https://github.com/gbaraldi/unishox.jl

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Julia package for the unishox string compression library

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gbaraldi/unishox.jl
• Owner: gbaraldi
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-11-03T20:23:25.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-02-12T19:55:57.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-08-03T12:41:33.165Z (11 months ago)
• Topics: compression, julia, strings-manipulation
• Language: Julia
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• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 2
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Unishox

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**Unishox.j;** is a Julia package that provides access to the compression and decompression functions in the [**Unishox**](https://github.com/siara-cc/Unishox2) C library.

It's algorithms are optimized for short Unicode strings. Compression is performed using an hybrid encoder that uses entropy, dictionary and delta encoding. For more details check the [**article**](https://github.com/siara-cc/Unishox2/blob/master/Unishox_Article_2.pdf?raw=true)

Two functions are exported by this package: `compress` and `decompress`.

Both accept a single `AbstractString` argument and return a `String`.

Here's an example using the functions at the REPL.

```julia

julia> using Unishox

julia> s = "😆I can do emojis"

"😆I can do emojis"

julia> sizeof(s)

19

julia> compressed = compress(s)

"\x9f\xc0R\xe3\x05\xaeg\x17T\x9f\x9a\xfd\xbd\x17"

julia> sizeof(compressed)

14

julia> decompress(compressed)

"😆I can do emojis"

```

This package is based on the [**Shoco.jl**](https://github.com/ararslan/Shoco.jl) package.