From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an cúigiú lá is fiche de mí na Samhain, scríobh Ross Clark:   
      
    > The compiler of this recently posted a note about it to LinguistList.   
    >   
    > https://marielebert.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/languages-web-timeline/   
    >   
    > Some here may find it of interest, or worth comment.   
      
   Great to put names to the founders of various sites that I have known and used   
   for years. I note an inaccuracy:   
      
     “January 2008:   
     Unicode superseded ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)   
     as the main encoding system on the web.   
     Unicode (first published in January 1991) provides a unique number for every   
     character, no matter the platform, the program and the language. The 16-bit   
     encoding allows the processing, storage and interchange of text data in any   
     language, while 7-bit ASCII (first published in 1963) can only process   
     English, with 8-bit variants of ASCII (first published in 1986) for a few   
     languages with diacritics.”   
      
   By that point most of the Unicode on the web was UTF-8, which can represent   
   up to 1.1 million code points and did at that point represent 99,024 code   
   points, more than a 16-bit encoding can.   
      
    > It is, of course, mainly historical, but Wikipedia has some interesting   
   current   
    > figures.   
    >   
    > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet   
      
   I’m a little surprised Chinese isn’t higher in those figures.   
      
   --   
   ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /   
   How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’   
   (C. Moore)   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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