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It’s also in ascii, is that superior to all other character sets, or an accident of history?
by 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 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, '£'.