The 'long s' (ſ) was still in fairly common use in English less than 200 years ago. Consequently there are a lot of historically relevant documents written in

The 'long s' (ſ) was still in fairly common use in English less than 200 years ago. Consequently there are a lot of historically relevant documents written in English that can't be faithfully reproduced using ASCII. This may not be relevant to most people, but it seems plausibly relevant to libraries or archivists (for instance the Library of Congress.) Example: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Bill_of_Rights_Pg1of1_AC.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Bill_of_...