There was no way to encode all those characters in 8-bits!

没有办法用 8 位编码所有这些字符！

On the other hand, while the Latin characters were used universally, Russian computers used the extra codes to encode Cyrillic characters, and Greek computers, Greek letters, and so on.

另一方面，虽然拉丁字符被普遍使用，但俄罗斯计算机使用额外的代码对西里尔字符、希腊计算机、希腊字母等进行编码。