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[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

At the time that C was designed, ASCII was not a universal standard. It was one encoding competing with other encodings.

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[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Ok that's a fair point I had overlooked. Thanks for explaining.

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