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mxfh
7 months ago
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We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes
I just consider ourselves lucky, that we're not stuck with 6- or 7-bit bytes in ASCII-land and made it to Code page 437.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-bit_character_code
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