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On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:48:36 -0500, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:

>As Steven D'Aprano pointed out, it was missing some commonly used US 
>symbols such as ¢ or ©.  This was a small price to pay for the 
>simplicity ASCII afforded.  It wasn't a bad encoding.  I was a very good 
>encoding.  But the world has moved on and computing hardware has become 
>cheap enough that supporting richer encodings and character sets is 
>realistic.
>
	Any volunteers to create an Extended Baudot... Instead of "letter
shift" and "number shift" we could have a generic "encoding shift" which
uses the following characters to identify which 7-bit subset of Unicode
is to be represented <G>
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