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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: unicode as valid naming symbols
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 19:16:47 +1300
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Chris Angelico wrote:
> a 5x8 bitmap has
> forty pixels, any of which can be either on or off - that gives
> roughly twice as much data space as the 21-bit Unicode spec.

We don't need a font, then -- just map the pixels
straight onto bits in the character code!

Might require some user re-education, but that's
a small price to pay for saving so much memory
space.

-- 
Greg