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cryptonector
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UTF-8 is a brilliant design
Many of the extended characters in ISO 8859-* can be implemented using pure ASCII with overstriking. ASCII was designed to support overstriking for this purpose. Overstriking was how one typed many of those characters on typewriters.
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