Since your alphabet is composed of 8-bit words, you'd get more mileage out of each byte by using 256 symbols in your alphabet, one for each binary value. And by using binary as your alphabet makes things conceptually simpler (even if the values are stored as 8-bit words).
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Since your alphabet is composed of 8-bit words, you'd get more mileage out of each byte by using 256 symbols in your alphabet, one for each binary value. And by using binary as your alphabet makes things conceptually simpler (even if the values are stored as 8-bit words).