From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:45:42 -0500, Someone Else wrote:   
      
   > Are you suggesting that in the 1970s, when it would have been   
   > fiscally impractical to sort the way you want now ...   
      
   It was never “fiscally impractical”. Many countries/regions did indeed   
   have national/regional computing efforts, precisely to address issues   
   with adapting North-American-centric technology to aspects of their   
   particular cultures. This is why we had so many national character   
   sets.   
      
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