LOGOS: a base-3 character encoding, 18.75% smaller than UTF-32, with zero-overhead error detection

Hi r/ASCII — A bit off-topic for ASCII art, but ASCII is the spiritual ancestor of every text encoding, so I figured this is the right room to argue about the bits. For 30+ years, every encoding we use — ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 — has been built on the same assumption: base-2 binary. We never seriously questioned it. Shannon's information theory says the optimal radix for representing a discrete alphabet is the one closest to e ≈ 2.718. Among integers, 3 is closer to e than 2 is — a ~5.8% th