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A Brit hoping to encode the Queen's English in ASCII is, I'm afraid, somewhat naïve. An American could, of course, be perfectly happy with the ASCII approximati
by Piskvorrr 9y ago
A Brit hoping to encode the Queen's English in ASCII is, I'm afraid, somewhat naïve. An American could, of course, be perfectly happy with the ASCII approximation of "naive", but wouldn't that be a rather barbaric solution? ;)
- bitwize 9y agoThis is why the development of character sets requires international coördination from the beginning. :)
- Piskvorrr 9y agoYeah. And then you'll get Latin-1, because everyone using computers is in Western Europe or uses ASCII ;)
- ygra 9y agoFor anything resembling sanely typeset text you’d also want apostrophes, proper “quotes” — as well as various forms of dashes and spaces. Plus, many non-trivial texts contain words in more than one language. I’d rather not return to the times of in-band codepage switching, or embedding foreign words as images.