for / while else doesn't make sense

[Jussi Piitulainen]

Rustom Mody writes:

> On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 4:18:02 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
...
>> instead of ASCII, national 7-bit character set variants were being
>> used.  For example, you might see Pascal code like this:
>> 
>>    ä return the net å
>>    ret := grossÄunitÅ * grossRate
>> 
>> <URL: http://www.aivosto.com/vbtips/charsets-7bit.html>
...
> Thanks to this (sub)thread Ive added a new section: "Lemma: 7=8" here
> http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicode-and-unix-assumption.html

There may be a small inaccuracy at the point where you refer to
Latin[1-15]. There are 15 parts to ISO-8859, numbered from 1 to 16 (with
part 12 abandoned), but their numbers are not in synch with the Latin-N
nicknames. In particular, Latin-9 is 8859-15, while 8859-9 is Latin-5.
Some of the 8859-N are not Latin-anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859

This important detail should fit well in your narrative :)

(Regarding Marko's 7-bit example, some terminals gave us a choice: they
could be toggled to show those certain codes as {[\|]} or as letters, it
was just not possible to see both at the same time.)