Comment by fluoridation

3 months ago

Isn't that just the order of the date components for I/O? It's still just ASCII characters.

Yes! I was just pointing it out to show that they had at least thought of Japanese users (in some small way).

But the past didn't use ASCII as such, but extended character sets, or multiple characters sets, which did allow for Russian, German, etc. text interfaces.

  • There is history frozen into printer manuals. One solution was control codes like DC1 to bank-switch the appearance of a block such as ASCII 128-159.