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necovek
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We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes
I don't think at the time ASCII was being "upgraded" with localized 8-bit codepages, Greek would have had primacy over, say, Cyrillic.
I wonder what came first, CP737 for Greek or CP855 and CP866 for Cyrillic.
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I wonder what came first, CP737 for Greek or CP855 and CP866 for Cyrillic.