From: Ruszlan Gaszanov (ruszlan@ather.net)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2009 - 07:59:38 CST
Julian Bradfield wrote:
>With just three code points:
>BINARY NUMBER START
>COMBINING BINARY DIGIT ZERO
>COMBINING BINARY DIGIT ONE
>you could unambigously encode arbitrary numbers
Brilliant! Not just encode arbitrary numbers, but embed any arbitrary binary
data into plain text! Imagine the benefit for millions of users [SARCASM
MARK]
>efficiently (in a theoretician's sense!) in Unicode;
...apart from the fact that each bit of information would require at least
16 times more storage space and bandwidth then in raw binary format - but
who cares about storage space and bandwidth these days? ;)
Ruszlan
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