From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, June 19, 2021 at 5:15:54 PM UTC+10, Elijah Stone wrote:   
   > On Mon, 14 Jun 2021, muta...@gmail.com wrote:   
   >   
   > > I need to repurpose 6 ASCII control characters to be used for Vietnamese   
   > > display characters   
      
   > - If you're using utf-8, why not use the unicode versions of those   
   characters?   
      
   I'm not using UTF-8.   
      
   > - If you're not using utf-8, why not use a full 8-bit character set?   
      
   I am using a full 8-bit character set. The Vietnamese have the   
   world's largest alphabet, and the only one that exceeds 8 bits   
   if you also include the existing 128 characters defined by   
   ASCII. It exceeds it by 6 characters, so 6 characters from   
   somewhere need to die. Unless you want to create 9-bit   
   characters. I'm not sure what hardware changes would be   
   required to support 9-bit chars/bytes. Adding another RAID   
   drive presumably isn't a problem. Giving up a parity bit for   
   RAM may be acceptable.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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