valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >> (and that despite the fact that it's perfectly well possible to write -any >> language out there- in the first 7 bits of ascii)
Yes, any language including FORTRAN. > And it's *equally* possible to write "any language out there" using a > 7-bit encoding of the Cyrillic character set. Yes, any language including FORTRAN, because KOI-7, a 7-bit encoding of the Cyrillic character set, includes all the uppercase Latin characters. > Oh, that would suck because Cyrillic isn't very similar to your native > character set? Welcome to the way the vast majority of the world feels. See how the vast majority of the world feels. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_646 Since the portion of ISO/IEC 646 shared by all countries (the "invariant set") specified only those letters used in the ISO basic Latin alphabet, Masataka Ohta
