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It's not a coincidence, the A in ASCII stands for American.
by ketralnis 6y ago
It's not a coincidence, the A in ASCII stands for American.
- xxpor 6y agoSure, but just the fact that roman characters with no accents (or just a few), plus all of the punctuation, fits in a 7 or 8 bit key space.
- hcs 6y agoAnd even 5 bits was enough for a long time, across a few European languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code (which I just learned is also where "baud" comes from!)