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by guappa 296 days ago
That would be extremely wasteful, every single text file would be 4x larger and I'm sure eventually it would not be enough anyway.
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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.
yeah that's how ascii works… there's 1 bit for lower/upper case.