Re:Base-122 – A space efficient alternative to base-64
by qwename on Sunday November 27, 2016 @04:05PM
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Are you referring to UTF-8? If so, this is misleading as you can encode up to 2^21 + 2^16 + 2^11 + 2^7 = 2,164,864 code points, which is not the same as encoding bytes in a single character.
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Re:Base-122 – A space efficient alternative to base-64
by logicallee on Sunday November 27, 2016 @09:02PM
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I was making a joke about how ridiculously large Unicode is. Obviously it is not 2 million+ bytes per character! (But the fact that you didn't consider my joke obvious speaks volumes).