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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by brnt on Friday October 25, 2019 @04:41AM (#21353005)
ASCII doesn't deal with (local) extensions of the Latin alphabet (in particular not diacritics), but to say ASCII is based on English... They are the basic Latin chars, no more, no less.
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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by Baeocystin on Friday October 25, 2019 @04:46AM (#21353041)
>to say ASCII is based on English... They are the basic Latin chars, no more, no less.

Bring back the Þorn! :D

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