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Dylan16807
on Feb 9, 2021
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Stop defacing quotes with brackets
If your news wire starts mangling data, you need to resend it, not guess.
And I bet you can get more reliability out of compressing and then adding error correction bits.
kqr
on Feb 21, 2021
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Bit of a late reply, but resending it is a form of redundancy, and so is adding error correction bits. It is cheaper to do these things (they require less bandwidth) when you start with a limited character set.
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And I bet you can get more reliability out of compressing and then adding error correction bits.