Coding systems are political (was Exended ASCII and code pages)

[Ned Batchelder]

On Saturday, May 28, 2016 at 11:16:39 AM UTC-4, wxjm... at gmail.com wrote:
> Le samedi 28 mai 2016 06:47:11 UTC+2, Rustom Mody a écrit :
> 
> > ...
> > [which AIUI is jmf's principal error]
> > 
> > ...
> 
> I'm very confident. It's only a question of time until
> the rest of the world dive into this mathematical
> absurdity.
> 
> With your math knowledge, it should not be too
> difficult to show it with a sheet of paper
> and a pencil. Hint: forget "bytes" and think
> "sets" and operators.

Let's please not re-open this debate.