US Patent 8159374 Unicode-compatible dictionary compression

A character data set is compressed with a compression algorithm module of a computer system to generate one or more streams of encoded values. A code point mapper assigns the encoded values to code points reserved for private use in a Unicode format. An encoder encodes the streams of assigned encoded values using a Unicode Transformation Format (UTF). A dictionary of the compression algorithm initially includes code points assigned by the Unicode format. New entries are successively assigned to private use code points.