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Toss out characters that you don't need #3

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At a very bare minimum you will want 36 characters in your alphabet, for lower case and numeric stuff. Beyond that you will want spaces and common punctuation:

.,?:;"' <-- 7 characters

after that you probably want all of the shift symbols which is another 14.

Space 1

and then []{}/\ <- another 6

This comes to a total of 64 characters in the alphabet which can be squeezed into 6 bits. If every character takes 3/4 byte, you can fit 4/3 characters in the same number of bytes. This stretches the number of characters from 75 to 100.

This notably excludes capital letters and <>

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