Obviously non-western languages is not my area of expertise! I did learn a few things by investigating this. 7 bit is right for std ASCII. I was looking at another kind of table for some kind HTML encoding where all 8 bit are used. Turns out this Hindi thing also appears to be a non-issue. According to my friend who speaks Hindi, most of these guys buy the English version. Anyway I learned a few things and I'm happy about that. Sometimes investigation of some questions leads to some strange paths.