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UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8

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  1. mqus · · focus · HN ↗
    Some ideas of what to do with this space:

    - fully-customizable emojis (think of a RPG-like character customization screen)

    - heck, why not full jpegs/gifs?

    - some unicode programming script (running Doom)

    - ?

    That said, some very minor (HN-style) nitpick:

    > Otherwise for an n byte code unit this is (5n+1) / 8n, that is 5n+1 content bits out of a total of 8n bits from n bytes. We can rewrite this as (5/8) + 1/(8n) which moderately quickly approaches 5/8 = 62.5%. It is nice that this limit is nonzero and does not depend on n.

    Isn't a limit by definition no longer dependent on n?

    1. Lockal · · focus · HN ↗
      > - some unicode programming script (running Doom)

      > - ?

      Bad Apple, oh, wait: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hsfzxjy&#x2F;Bad-Apple-Font" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hsfzxjy&#x2F;Bad-Apple-Font

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