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I'd hate to work for the New Yorker without ö on the keyboard, but for 99.99% of American usage ASCII is plenty good enough.
by mark-r 6y ago
I'd hate to work for the New Yorker without ö on the keyboard, but for 99.99% of American usage ASCII is plenty good enough.
- dragonwriter 6y agoASCII doesn't even have proper quotation marks or dashes. There's a reason software for text production has long made it easy to use characters outside of the ASCII range.
- foota 6y agoYou're talking past OP. Most people don't care about matching quotations or dashes.
- Symbiote 6y agoMost people will care about something not in ASCII. Windows-1252 encoding was supported on American computers long before Unicode. I remember “smart quotes” being promoted as a feature of word processors. Even for people who didn't care for the quotes: • everyone appreciates ¢, ° for °F or 46° N, ¼, ½, ¾, × and ÷, • people handling large texts want §, †, ‡ and maybe ¶, • businesses want ©, ® and ™, • scientists and engineers need µ, ±, ², ³, ·. Web browsers have made it more difficult for the average user to enter these characters, but software like Microsoft Word has supported easy ways to insert many of them automatically.