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[Phaze]

Well AS3 by itself is pretty weak in terms of encoding, but there may be an external library with Huffman encoding (isn't that used for JPG or something?).

Would it allow me to store all the data in 3 characters though? I don't want anything more than Ms, Ps and Hs.

Huffman is used in a couple of things (most notable thing to me being the compression algo used for Skulltag's network comms) but it feels somewhat obscure, especially when there are algorithms like LZW around with a wider support of libraries like zlib.

Well Huffman coding would provide you with a binary output (iirc) that you can simply re-interpret into the Mmphs as normal. It'd just be a bit smaller.