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		LegionMammal978 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes There was already more than enough space for characters with 12-bit systems like the PDP-8. If anything, the convergence on 8-bit words just made it more efficient to use 7-bit codepages like ASCII.

consp 4 months ago [–]

As the UTF encodings have shown you can put any encoding in any bitform if need be.

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