For the large dictionary it’s a tiny bit worse, but still rounds to 16%: $ < /usr/share/dict/american-english-insane gzip --best | wc --bytes 1778330 $ <

For the large dictionary it’s a tiny bit worse, but still rounds to 16%: $ < /usr/share/dict/american-english-insane gzip --best | wc --bytes 1778330 $ < /usr/share/dict/american-english-insane iconv -f utf-8 -t utf-16le | gzip --best | wc --bytes 2061457