Regarding Paul Saffo's essay (Wired 1.2, page 48), it's time that the US of A got hip to the fact that for most of the world, there are more than 26 letters to the alphabet. With the sorry ASCII character set that passes for the American e-mail alphabet (no accents, no Cyrillic, no ideograms - just for starters), most languages of the world can't even express themselves, much less join in the "digital revolution." Before we can talk about a digital Jeffersonian utopia, let's grant people their most fundamental democratic right: the ability to express themselves in their own language.
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