Re:EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR
by latexr on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @05:48AM
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> Everyone can read, write, speak and hear the basic Latin alphabet.
Not everyone in countries which use the Latin alphabet can read or write it (called analphabets or illiterate). And there isn’t a single way to speak it, either, pronunciation depends on the language. So I’m not sure I buy there aren’t people who can read and write only in a non-Latin alphabet.
I have no clue what you mean when you say everyone can hear the Latin alphabet. Listening to sounds has no relation to the language spoken. I can hear Korean just fine, doesn’t mean I understand the meaning of the words or understand their alphabet.
> Not even an English/US thing
Even languages who use the Latin alphabet have diacritics and characters not present in ASCII.
Not everyone in countries which use the Latin alphabet can read or write it (called analphabets or illiterate). And there isn’t a single way to speak it, either, pronunciation depends on the language. So I’m not sure I buy there aren’t people who can read and write only in a non-Latin alphabet.
I have no clue what you mean when you say everyone can hear the Latin alphabet. Listening to sounds has no relation to the language spoken. I can hear Korean just fine, doesn’t mean I understand the meaning of the words or understand their alphabet.
> Not even an English/US thing
Even languages who use the Latin alphabet have diacritics and characters not present in ASCII.