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    1. 1 byte = 1 character is tempting because its so simple, i get it, but its also wrong when youre dealing with text meant to be read by humans
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    not wrong as in “it would be nice if you didn’t do that”, but Wrong as in Formally Incorrect
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      8 bits is not enough to encode all characters of Text, that’s just a true fact.
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        restricting the color depth of computers to 1 bit would make things a lot simpler! it would also be insufficient to represent Color Images
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          if youre making monochrome images, call them that, and if youre making color images, you have to do the work to make them happen.
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            similarly, if youre writing something for a particular group of people fluent in one language, do that
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              but if your goal is to write systems for Humans that can manipulate Human Text, you have to do the work to make that actually happen
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