Comment by klabb3

2 years ago

English speaker detected! Half kidding, but in my language that would be difficult. ÅÄÖ

People got by using non-English languages in the 1980s when most computers only used ASCII due to their US/UK origins. Many languages already had such substitutions established, for example in German umlauts can be replaced with a following e, which were sometimes used on signs using block letters where there was no space for umlauts.