It was probably written in the sky that I had to post a typo, but I did it.

> Why isn't this encoded as {ff 44} which is not shorter than the initial data, 
> but at least is not larger.


Read this {fe 44} for minus 2 followed by 44.
But the question remains open, I still do not get why 'DD' becomes 02 44 44 and 
not FE 44.

— 
Olivier Mascia

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