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A comment on Unicode (1889).

Re:Unicode (1889) by dash2 on Thursday November 26, 2020 @07:31AM (#25219415)
All the code words are Latin, which gives a bit of context for one of the famous one-word telegrams of the 19th century. After conquering the Indian province of Sindh, Charles Napier sent back "peccavi" (I have sinned).
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Re:Unicode (1889) by jfk13 on Thursday November 26, 2020 @08:22AM (#25219795)
Except that apparently he didn't actually send it, at least according to this account: http://www.historyworld.net/Articles/PlainTextArticles.asp?a...
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Re:Unicode (1889) by gerikson on Thursday November 26, 2020 @02:47PM (#25223010)
"Thanks" for exploding this myth, that I've thought true for decades....
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Re:Unicode (1889) by jfk13 on Thursday November 26, 2020 @03:08PM (#25223156)
Yes, it was something of a disappointment to me, too.
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