Reply to post: Re: ASCeeyaaarrrrgh!

Microsoft pulls Office 2010 updates because they're big in Japan. As in, big pain in the ASCII

W.S.Gosset

Re: ASCeeyaaarrrrgh!

>> "tiny english-dominated character-set"

> That would be a Latin-dominated character-set.

No, that would be an english-dominated character set.

Pure ASCII did not provide for non-english Latin characters. No such thing as é or ß or Ö, despite these being good Latin characters. ASCII is english-dominated, exemplified by the need for dancing about special code pages to get non native-english Latin characters into it.

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