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by AlienRobot 776 days ago
Do we really need 128 permutations just to express an alphabet of 26 letters?

I think we should use a 4 bit encoding.

0 - NUL

1-7 - aeiouwy

8 - space

9-12 - rst

13-15 - modifiers

When modifier bits are set, the values of the next half-byte change to represent the rest of the alphabet, numbers, symbols, etc. depending on the bits set.

2 comments

I like it, but what if we use 2 to pick symbols, 3 to pick numbers, and 4 and 5 to pick capital letters.
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