scripsit:
> As an example, we could remember the primary (pre-Unicode) Braille
> system, that allows the representation of any plain text with 2^^6
> characters only.
Bah! Way excessive. The ITA2 (sometimes called, unhistorically, the Baudot)
encoding did it all with just 32 codepoints, representing A-Z, NUL, SP,
CR, LF, and two shifts, FIGS and LETS. After sending FIGS, the codepoints
for letters represented 0-9 and -'$!&#'()"/:;?., until you sent LETS.
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