Another extension to this encoding: If we have an 0b11xx_xxxx byte which isn’t proceeded by a 0b10xx_xxxx byte, the numeric value of the byte is its correspondi

Another extension to this encoding: If we have an 0b11xx_xxxx byte which isn’t proceeded by a 0b10xx_xxxx byte, the numeric value of the byte is its corresponding codepoint. This gives us all of the accented letters western European languages use, allowing us to represent all of ASCII and all western European letters with only one byte. This also means that the top half of ISO 8859-1 will have two representations with this encoding, but since they are letters, with the only symbols being × (multiplication) and ÷ (division), this should not be a security risk, unless one programs in Raku (which, ugh, gives meta significance to non-ASCII Unicode symbols).