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Your reply is in text. Would you care to link a set of paintings to express your argument instead?

• rhn_mk1 6y ago
  That's the point: take an arbitrary criterion, end up with an arbitrary answer.
• mattnewton 6y ago
  It’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 ago
      If 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 ago
        That'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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