> Why I care about ASCII here? Because programming language source code is still written in that, and it's also those symbols that appear on standard US keyboar

> Why I care about ASCII here? Because programming language source code is still written in that, and it's also those symbols that appear on standard US keyboard layout. > I think those extra symbols would have made life easier in many cases... How would it make life any easier? The fact that they aren’t in ASCII doesn’t mean they can’t be on the keyboard. That’s an entirely separate issue. European keyboards have lots of non-ASCII characters on them. Also as others have noted, programming languages are almost universally not ASCII. Though again I don’t know why you think that matters.