The first networked computers predate unicode by several decades. Back then, the word length could be 8 but not neccesarily. All sorts of different encodings existed and a given common standard wasn't yet agreed upon
It's not like internet standards don't know there are other languages, it's just that they documented how things were done at the time. Some legacy has remained ever since.
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The first networked computers predate unicode by several decades. Back then, the word length could be 8 but not neccesarily. All sorts of different encodings existed and a given common standard wasn't yet agreed upon
It's not like internet standards don't know there are other languages, it's just that they documented how things were done at the time. Some legacy has remained ever since.