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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by Brockenstein on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:56PM (#14405260)
You should see how Sabre handles email address with it's bizarre, limited, possibly 7bit character set from 1959.

In Sabre emails can be like 70 characters long. But periods count as two characters, as do underscores, and @ counts as four. I mean given the choice between period and cross of lorraine I know which I am choosing to include.

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by hackuser on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @05:29PM (#14405547)
What character encoding do they use? ASCII is 7-bit, all those characters use 1 byte in ASCII, and of course email addresses were originally (and until recently?) restricted to ASCII.
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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by Brotkrumen on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:01AM (#14408274)
Something weird:

https://sds.sabre.com/XTRANET_Access/sabre.htm

The @ is 0x2E20 in sabre hex

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