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became popular.Really? you cried and laughed over 7 vs. 8 bits? That's lovely (?). ;). That eighth bit sure was less confusing than codepoint translations
no we had 6 bits in 60 bit words as I recall; extracting the nth character involved division by 6; smart people did tricks with inverted multiplications etc etc :(
-- Robin Becker -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
