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I knew the French were running things on the standards end ever since v.32bis. Having it be one or the other seems better than neither of them. When selecting imperial or metric, we don't start using a feeter (half way between a foot and a meter).

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I think the French were the first to create ASCII's first predecessor if I recall correctly, used in line of sight telegrams.

Do you have further information on this? It sounds interesting.

Baudot code?

Ah yes. Quite familiar with Baudot for several reasons. I didn't make the connection.

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