The Scottish Parliament has passed legislation to appoint a âNamed Personâ for every child in Scotland. This is a state official tasked with looking after a childâs âwellbeingâ, that is, their âhappinessâ. The scheme is compulsory. 2  Every child will have a Named Person by law. 3  They will have power to access confidential data on the family, and to talk to a child without their parents agreeing with what they say.
The simplest collapse recodes the 382 languages into four major language groups: Spanish, Other Indo-European languages, Asian and Pacific Island languages, and Other languages. A more detailed collapsing puts the 382 codes into 39 languages and language groups.
The standard, 7-bit ASCII code for text dates back to 1967 when nearly all computer users spoke English. A 7-bit code gives only 128 unique characters. Unicode uses 16 bits and includes the character sets of many languages. (The ASCII codes comprise the first 128 characters of Unicode). The original ASCII code, shown here, is still widely used by text editors like Notepad and in applications like HTML and email.