If a document is in US English, why not use 5 bits for each character

>>61407078
>wasting != not using it
>Standardization

>>61407078
You used numbers in your text, what about that?
> 6bit mustard race with escape chars.

> If
> US
> English
> Quotes
> Literally
> All
> Think
Find a thing that all these words from your retarded keyboard vomit have in common and why you could not write it with your proposal.

>>61407304
Vowels? You're a fucking retard. Stop browsing any time.

>>61407236
Numbers could be written like ''one'' ''two'' ''three'' or as Roman numerals.

>>61407304
Capital letters are largely vestigial in written communication

>>61407346
> capital letters are largely vestigial
> english
> enforces capitalization of 'I' pronoun regardless of its place in sentence
> abbreviation fetish without enforcing periods
just use gzip

>hey guys now that bits are infinitesimal fractions of a penny why don’t we sacrifice clarity and the ability to write questions, parentheticals, and words with diacritical marks to save space in one of the most highly compressible areas?

this is a troll

Because then you'd have alignment issues
Each byte now stores 1.6 characters, so interpreting a block of memory would require the address so you could calculate the offset where to start reading correctly and it would be a clusterfuck to manage.

>>61407078
See >>61408849

It needs to be a power of 2.

to be fair, you could design a 6-bit-byte architecture. 5 wouldn't work, even deciding to live without numbers and mathematical operators you need eol and eof control characters unless you want to obliterate your savings space-pad ding every line to 80 and then every file to end of allocation unit.

in return for innate text compression that's several times less efficient than just putting them in a damn zip, you'd get a literal burger-only computer that couldn't even be used in england or canada, that would need a custom cpu and ram, and that would need its own snowflake programming language and intensive effort to even cross-compile for.