There&#x27;s only so many ways you can slice a kilobyte.  Measuring bits is just the way to do it for data transmissions.<p>Support for compact representation of more languages would have been nice.  Something like an 8 bit mode with 2 byte escapes for setting code page and 3 byte escapes for arbitrary unicode characters.  As a bonus you&#x27;d actually be able to fit <i>more</i> emoji in that mode, 46 vs. 35.