• Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de
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    16 days ago

    I didn’t recognize the Toki Pona logo but managed to read/decode the writing at the bottom, so it can’t be that bad.

    Although I’d probably make use of some letters being more frequent than others and use a Huffman code instead of giving everything a fixed length.

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      16 days ago

      excellent point! at the time I was thinking about fixed-width binary specifically and trying to think of interesting uses for it, but that’s a good point.

      • Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de
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        15 days ago

        Fixing it definitely has advantages too. Just off the top of my head: Code length growing linearly with word length is one thing, figuring out what the last letter is (which is important when reading quickly) is another.