Comment by guappa

Comment by guappa a day ago

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That would be extremely wasteful, every single text file would be 4x larger and I'm sure eventually it would not be enough anyway.

Ekaros a day ago

Maybe we should have just replaced ascii, horrible encoding were entire 25% of it is wasted. And maybe we could have gotten a bit more efficiency by saying instead of having both lower and uppercase letters just have one and then have a modifier before it. Saving lot of space as most text could just be lowercase.

  • guappa a day ago

    yeah that's how ascii works… there's 1 bit for lower/upper case.