Hello Michiel!

27 May 19 15:46, you wrote to me:

 MvdV> It was born in a time when the only storage available was a human
 MvdV> writing things down on a piece of paper end on/off was the only encoding
 MvdV> available. "bandwith" was not an issue, the term was not even in use
 MvdV> when Morse code was born. The early spark transmitters were ver wide
 MvdV> band accoding to moden standards...

 OK, you win I was thinking of the bitrate.

 KE>>  Extendible systems have administrative overhead.

 MvdV> UTF-8 is extendible...

 Yes, there are administrative bits, that indicate the byte size.

 You will probably tell me it is a sparse table, where leading groups of
 8 zero's are redundant and omitted.

Kees

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