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Comment by fluoridation

11 hours ago

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

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Rizz  9 hours ago

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.

dardeaup  11 hours ago

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

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