[TML] New 3d computer simulation design

[Anthony Jackson]

Timothy Little wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 07:16:25PM -0800, shadow at shadowgard.com wrote:
>> For example, based on per bit or byte charges, it's noticeably
>> cheaper to use a limited character set (Baudot or ASCII) than to use
>> something like unicode.
> 
> Not really, since they losslessly compress to identical sizes in cases
> where the extended range is not used.

Well, in theory you can transmit ascii in 7-bit instead of 8-bit. Due to 
the limitations of SMTP, when sending email ascii data is significantly 
(25%) cheaper than data with any amount of unicode, though this is a 
specific technical issue which there's no reason to assume for any other 
protocol.