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I think usually you can say: K is Greek and C is Latin. But in the case of Carl/Karl this does not really apply, because Karl (this is the German form) obviously is a genuine Germanic name (see my post "Maybe Karl is not a Man" ab few days ago). But in the Middle Ages everybody spelt his words the way he wanted to, so there was a lot of to and fro between some letters and C and K were some of them. I would say the Latin influence on the German language was stronger then (let's say around 700 A.D.), but I don't really know much about this.

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Andy ;—)