[149692] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Sun Feb 12 00:26:29 2012
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:25:05 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <191698.1329021588@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>> (and that despite the fact that it's perfectly well possible to write -any
>> language out there- in the first 7 bits of ascii)
Yes, any language including FORTRAN.
> And it's *equally* possible to write "any language out there" using a
> 7-bit encoding of the Cyrillic character set.
Yes, any language including FORTRAN, because KOI-7, a
7-bit encoding of the Cyrillic character set, includes
all the uppercase Latin characters.
> Oh, that would suck because Cyrillic isn't very similar to your native
> character set? Welcome to the way the vast majority of the world feels.
See how the vast majority of the world feels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_646
Since the portion of ISO/IEC 646 shared by all countries
(the "invariant set") specified only those letters used
in the ISO basic Latin alphabet,
Masataka Ohta
