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By that same argument/logic you might as well argue cave paintings are superior over text. It traces back probably over 50000 years and is still universal today
by numlock86 6y ago
By that same argument/logic you might as well argue cave paintings are superior over text. It traces back probably over 50000 years and is still universal today and doesn't even require understanding of a specific language - and it still forms the basis of most of society now. (art, painting, photographs, graffiti, ...)
- SubjectToChange 6y agoYour reply is in text. Would you care to link a set of paintings to express your argument instead?
- rhn_mk1 6y agoThat's the point: take an arbitrary criterion, end up with an arbitrary answer.
- mattnewton 6y agoIt’s also in ascii, is that superior to all other character sets, or an accident of history?
- sellyme 6y ago> It’s also in ascii No it isn't: > 10:48:55.380 document.location.href > 10:48:55.384 "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26166797 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26166797" > 10:48:57.723 document.characterSet > 10:48:57.726 "UTF-8"
- mattnewton 6y agoIf it was really Unicode I could use an eye roll emoji to reply with a succinct image, instead of all these words to describe my reaction.
- sellyme 6y agoThat's HN filtering your input, nothing to do with the actual encoding. Plenty of non-ASCII symbols show up perfectly fine. For example, '£'.
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