On Monday 27 January 2025 04:56:29 Pacific Standard Time Bo Persson via Std-
Proposals wrote:
> I envision something like this - Unisys 36-bit mainframes
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/6972551/17398063
>
> The 36-bit int had an alignment of 1, because addresses were assigned to
> words. It still stored 4 chars per word, and had part-word instructions
> to select those. That part-word info had to be stored somewhere.

9-bit chars, which led to UTF-9 and UTF-18.
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4042.txt

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