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> Rough estimate 10% of the world speak English as a first language ASCII isn't even good enough for that 10% – British people need £, which isn't in ASCII – n
by JimDabell 10y ago
> Rough estimate 10% of the world speak English as a first language
ASCII isn't even good enough for that 10% – British people need £, which isn't in ASCII – not to mention things like em dashes, en dashes, and curly quotation marks that word processors tend to add.
- JulianMorrison 10y agoThey're in latin-1 though, which is a byte-per-character encoding.
- herge 10y agoI don't think anyone who deals with character encodings should encourage latin-1 in 2016 instead of utf8. Fair enough, your old C code will work, but everyone else will hate you. Except, of course, if you deal with Windows...
- guan 10y agoKids these days also use emoji.
- yummyfajitas 10y agoAlso unicode. http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html
- rmc 10y agoEmoji have been part of Unicode since 1993 (e.g. ️)