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Re:UTF-8 is a brilliant design by gugagore on Saturday September 13, 2025 @07:02AM (#45231093)
Also, statefullness. Baudot has two codes used for switching into one of two modes: figures and letters.

Typewriters have some statefullness, too, like "shift lock". Baudot needed to encode the actions of a type writer to control it, not the output.

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