In message , Nick Maclaren
writes

In article ,
Tom Gardner writes:
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| Well, I remember the days when 1/2 was a 7-bit character :-)
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| I remember when they were three 5-bit characters.
| (I don't think they required 5 characters, but I'd
| have to check to be certain)

It depends on which 5-bit code. I can no longer remember either of
the ones I used.

quite a few here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding

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