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Re:Compressing Text into Images by satoru42 on Sunday January 14, 2024 @10:35PM (#38997188)
This doesn't work if you use utf-8 instead of ascii.
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Re:Compressing Text into Images by phyzome on Monday January 15, 2024 @01:33AM (#38997991)
Sure it does. UTF-8 is constructed such that characters from lower ASCII have the identical 1-byte encoding. You might be thinking of UTF-16 or UTF-32, or non-ASCII characters...
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