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Comment by fluoridation

9 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  7 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  9 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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