The "It's a UNIX system! I know this!" Proposal
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Around about 2010, Venter made a synthetic cell [[1]] with "watermarks" written in amino-acids.
After six months of debate, we have provisionally settled upon a utf-6 base encoding.
References
Gibson, Daniel G., John I. Glass, Carole Lartigue, Vladimir N. Noskov, Ray-Yuan Chuang, Mikkel A. Algire, Gwynedd A. Benders et al. "Creation of a bacterial cell controlled by a chemically synthesized genome." science 329, no. 5987 (2010): 52-56.