Alexis wrote: > Out of interest, what's the natural language other than English that can use > ASCII only? English isn’t one of the two ASCII-only languages. It's naïve to think that even American English is ASCII-only. I was once told that the other ASCII-only natural language is Hawaiʻian. Pretty funny, huh? Anyway, two reasonable answers to the original question would be roman Swahili and modern Latin. Classical Latin needs some non-ASCII characters; see, for example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:I_littera_in_manuscripto.jpg which I'm attaching for convenience.