Re:Italian Ruby
by xxpor on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:24PM
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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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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!)