"your first 2 extensions (5 and 6 bytes) were clearly envisioned. the standard (up to 4 bytes) was created to cover the size of unicode. i thought any more description would be a waste of paper. i think your extension from 7 to 8 bytes is a little hoaky. i requires reading the whole string rather than "knowing" the number of follow on bytes. so, i think the only thing new is the 7 byte version.

i appreciate the mail, but i really dont think it is useful. it is like replacing ipv6 with ipv50."

Some day we'll need this when we finally realise we are not alone in the universe. Alien glyphs ftw.

I mean, I can derive from the text that this can encode arbitrarily large integers. So what? What's the point? I also understand that this is for fun.

https://xkcd.com/1953/

This is why we need the KISS enforcers.