> how the standard could be extended for use for “European alphabets” (they could use the 5 values after Z and the one before A for additional letters) https:/

> how the standard could be extended for use for “European alphabets” (they could use the 5 values after Z and the one before A for additional letters) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#7-bit_codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#7-bit_codes They not only could, they actually did. Now you know why C has trigraphs.