random...@fastmail.us dixit:

>If this were an intended feature why would it elevate latin-1 over other
>unicode characters? This only proves my point.

It doesn’t – it’s just that latin1 is the first 256 chars of Unicode
by accident (or design, don’t know, ask the Unicode people).

And this Meta/8bit thing predates Unicode.

>And what the heck is wrong with national keyboard layouts that it's
>"useful" to "lead people away from" them?

/?\|[]{}'";:-_=+

bye,
//mirabilos
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