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To my understanding, ASCII basically only covers English and Italian well, whereas Latin-1 covers most Western European languages — which includes the main lang
by chc 8y ago
To my understanding, ASCII basically only covers English and Italian well, whereas Latin-1 covers most Western European languages — which includes the main languages of the Americas (Spanish, English, French, Portuguese).
- zeveb 8y ago> To my understanding, ASCII basically only covers English and Italian well And German, too: while German does have ä, ö, ü & ß, they may correctly be written as ae, oe, ue & ss.
- ithkuil 8y agoItalian requires è, ù, ò, à, ì, é, ó, í and (rarely used) î Accented letters just don't appear that much prominently as in French or Spanish, and distinctions of acute and grave accents are often nowadays lost even on native writers if it wasn't for spellcheckers.