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Should [[PGP word list]] added in the list?--[[User:起司狗|𝒞𝒽ℯℯ𝓈ℯ𝒹ℴℊ]] ([[User talk:起司狗|talk]]) 01:53, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

== What does the ASCII line in the standards table mean? ==

This line is rather confusing.

{| class="wikitable sortable"

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! Encoding !! Data type !! Efficiency !! Programming language implementations !! Comments

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| [[ASCII]] || Arbitrary || data-sort-value="87.5%"| 87.5%|| Most languages ||

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Given that ASCII text cannot represent arbitrary data why is it here? And how can it be 87.5% efficient given that it cannot represent half of all possible octets?