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Yup. "ASCII is mostly OK if you're USian and only use English, therefore no problem exists."
by Piskvorrr 8y ago
Yup. "ASCII is mostly OK if you're USian and only use English, therefore no problem exists."
- dublin 8y agoIt was good enough for UNIX... Heck, it was a big deal when early uucp and Internet links were finally 8-bit clean! (Only 7 bits are needed for plain old English ASCII, and when you were paying many thousands of dollars a month for a T1 (1.5Mbps) connection, using 7-bit was an instant 12% bandwidth boost...)
- Piskvorrr 8y agoSure, but that's a historical quirk - epoch time has advanced from 0 a bit ;)
- pjmlp 8y agoWhich is why then you have to come up with tricks like typing c, instead of ç, eh instead of é and so forth. Then everyone does it a bit differently and there is this pre-parsing phase trying to understand which idiom people have written the text.