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 255 characters aren't very many.  For example, you can't fit both the accented
 characters used in Western Europe and the Cyrillic alphabet used for Russian
-into the 128--255 range because there are more than 127 such characters.
+into the 128--255 range because there are more than 128 such characters.
 
 You could write files using different codes (all your Russian files in a coding
 system called KOI8, all your French files in a different coding system called