I think the most salient point in your link is: >Even more significantly, from the point of view of the problem of character encoding for digital textual repre

I think the most salient point in your link is: >Even more significantly, from the point of view of the problem of character encoding for digital textual representation in information technology, the preexisting identification of Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic as distinct scripts was carried over into character encoding, from the very earliest instances of such encodings. Once ASCII and EBCDIC were expanded to start incorporating Greek or Cyrillic letters, all significant instances of such encodings included a basic Latin (ASCII or otherwise) set and a full set of letters for Greek or a full set of letters for Cyrillic. Precedent for the purposes of character encoding was clearly established by those early 8-bit charsets. That's true, although it reminded me of a cool charset: the Russian KOI8-R encoding[1]. This encoding was created so that if you stripped the high bit (presumably on a system unable to handle russian properly) you ended up with semi-legible latinized Russian. Quoting wikipedia: >For instance, "Русский Текст" in KOI8-R becomes rUSSKIJ tEKST ("Russian Text") if the 8th bit is stripped; attempting to interpret the ASCII string rUSSKIJ tEKST as KOI7 yields "РУССКИЙ ТЕКСТ". KOI8 was based on Russian Morse code, which was created from Latin Morse code based on sound similarities, and which has the same connection to the Latin Morse codes for A-Z as KOI8 has with ASCII. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOI8-R https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOI8-R