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No two-step translation involved. However, I sometimes gets parity bit errors - especially when someone comes in and wants to talk to me in the middle of writing :)
Sw: från = Eng: from. They start the same, the same number of letters and similar pronounciation.
IBM had 36-bit big iron, so they impplemented 4x 9-bit characters or 5x 7-bit characters.
Control Data Corporation's "Cyber" machines used 6-bit characters and a 60-bit word. The OS had a special "ASCII" mode that translated files with special multi-byte escape sequences to represent both upper and lower case. Writing character values in octal actually made sense for this machine.