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		xxpor on Aug 31, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Italian Ruby Sure, 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 on Sept 1, 2020 [–]

And even 5 bits was enough for a long time, across a few European languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code (which I just learned is also where "baud" comes from!)

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