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   Benny Pedersen to Rob Swindell   
   Slackware 15.0   
   04 Oct 20 21:42:18   
   
   MSGID: 2:230/0 5f7a4198   
   TZUTC: 0000   
   REPLY: 47996.linux@1:103/705 23ddcfd6   
   CHRS: LATIN-1 2   
   TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 17-02-17   
   Hello Rob!   
      
   02 Oct 2020 19:13, Rob Swindell wrote to Benny Pedersen:   
      
    >> if computers was 32bit from the beginning, keyboard charset would have    
    >> being solved from the start, we today are limited to 7 bit with multiple    
    >> problems to solve, HTML works since it can be safely parsed as JSON   
      
    RS> This is a joke, right?   
      
   it would be a very slow computer if databits was changed from 8 bit to 32 bit,   
   but keymaps then would not need 7 bit maps or encoding to support 5000+   
   charters in chinees   
      
   its to late to change it now, and this is why we see so many solotions on the   
   same problem that does not exists in html   
      
      
    Regards Benny   
      
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