Do we really need 128 permutations just to express an alphabet of 26 letters? I think we should use a 4 bit encoding. 0 - NUL 1-7 - aeiouwy 8 - space 9-12

Do we really need 128 permutations just to express an alphabet of 26 letters? I think we should use a 4 bit encoding. 0 - NUL 1-7 - aeiouwy 8 - space 9-12 - rst 13-15 - modifiers When modifier bits are set, the values of the next half-byte change to represent the rest of the alphabet, numbers, symbols, etc. depending on the bits set.