> So, yeah - this isn't a good idea. If the Weird transpiler only changes the encoding of each character with a really weird equivalent, it makes a lot of sense

> So, yeah - this isn't a good idea. If the Weird transpiler only changes the encoding of each character with a really weird equivalent, it makes a lot of sense that it doesn't compress better than the source one - the ideal scenario would be to compress the same. If your results disagree with your premise in unsurprising and obvious ways - please start your article with that so I can stop reading it.