 | | For years, UNIX used the ASCII character set. ASCII, being the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, works great in the United States. But in England, where the monetary symbol is '£,' a non-ASCII character, a problem arises. In countries that use diacritical marks with their letters, e.g., â, ç, ì, õ, and ü, the problem is even worse. And in countries like Japan, where the character set is not even remotely Latin in origin, ASCII is completely hopeless. | |
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