ASCII was designed to handle the common Western European accents ˊˋˆ˜¨ by overstriking. 0x08 0x60 is not inherently a worse encoding than 0xCC 0x80 for a combin

ASCII was designed to handle the common Western European accents ˊˋˆ˜¨ by overstriking. 0x08 0x60 is not inherently a worse encoding than 0xCC 0x80 for a combining grave accent.