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Re:Italian Ruby by ketralnis on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:20PM (#24335006)
It's not a coincidence, the A in ASCII stands for American.
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Re:Italian Ruby by xxpor on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:24PM (#24335055)
Sure, but just the fact that roman characters with no accents (or just a few), plus all of the punctuation, fits in a 7 or 8 bit key space.
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Re:Italian Ruby by hcs on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @04:40AM (#24339693)
And even 5 bits was enough for a long time, across a few European languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code (which I just learned is also where "baud" comes from!)
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