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the thing that really bothers me is that the 'aliens' are using ASCII and not unicode

• jrockway 15y ago
  No, it makes sense. While the humans were busy debating how many codepoints the character 愛 should have, the aliens standardized on ASCII and invented intergalactic spacetravel instead.
  • verroq 15y ago
    >愛 It's funny because you picked the Chinese character for "love". I'm not sure if that was part of your point but it adds another layer of interpretation into your reply.
    • calloc 15y ago
      太好了！
• DrStalker 15y ago
  Wouldn't UTF-8 without a BOM look identical to ASCII for the "normal" characters?
  • kgtm 15y ago
    Yes.
  • gcr 15y ago
    Yes because UTF-8 doesn't have a BOM. Well, it's not recommended at least. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark#UTF-8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark#UTF-8