(https://phpc.social/@davidbisset/111794868572034698)

Interesting: why lowercase letters save #data.

https://endtimes.dev/why-lowercase-letters-save-data/

Text #compression is more effective when…

– There's a smaller variety of characters in the text
– The less common characters use used less frequently
– Characters or groups of characters are repeated more often.

Replacing uppercase characters with their more common lowercase counterparts helps with all three of these.


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