Text encoding Babel. Was Re: George Keremedjiev

[Fred Cisin]

>> Therefore, for use with current computers, 32 bits would be needed.
>> Some games can be played with mixing sizes by doing things like setting 
>> high bit, for 128 7 bit characters plus 32768 15 bit characters, and 
>> 2147483648 31 bit characters.

On Sun, 25 Nov 2018, ben via cctalk wrote:
> REAL COMPUTERS USE 18 BITS...  RUNS
> BEN.

Alas, "current" computers use 8, 16, 32.
They totally fail to understand the intrinsic benefits of 9, 12, 18, 24, 
and 36 bits.