cursed encoding

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Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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.

nycki@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 · 3 pts · 1y

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.

wh0_cares@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

ni li nasa mute a! taso, ni li pona lukin tawa mi.

nycki@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

pona a!

tetris11@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

it says "I love you..... poppinfresh"