But contrary to the date issue, you could at least make a case for using ASCII everywhere. I'm not saying it has no downsides (e.g information density). It may

But contrary to the date issue, you could at least make a case for using ASCII everywhere. I'm not saying it has no downsides (e.g information density). It may also be unrealistic and culturally insensitive, but there are very clear upsides as well. Not so with the U.S date format. It's just bad.