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Came here to say this. UTF-8/16 represents such a relief from the previous text-encoding nightmares that I run away from any tooling that does not use it. If a
by joshspankit 5y ago
Came here to say this. UTF-8/16 represents such a relief from the previous text-encoding nightmares that I run away from any tooling that does not use it.
If anyone else was a web dev in the 90s, you know what I’m talking about.
- MattBlissett 5y agoAsciiDoctor supports Unicode just fine. We've integrated it with PO4A[0] and CrowdIn.com to support a translation workflow, and so far have one document in Chinese: [1]. Another (tiny) example is [2] with an emoji star, you can "Edit this page" and see the Unicode source. [0] https://po4a.org/ https://po4a.org/ [1] https://docs.gbif.org/collections-idea-paper/zh/ https://docs.gbif.org/collections-idea-paper/zh/ [2] https://ipt.gbif.org/manual/en/ipt/2.5/data-hosting-centres#data-hosting-centres-by-location https://ipt.gbif.org/manual/en/ipt/2.5/data-hosting-centres#...
- SAI_Peregrinus 5y agoThe issue is that the name strongly implies that it doesn't. If a system is named "Doesn'tSupportImportantThingSys" don't be surprised when people don't bother to check the documentation to find that it actually does support the important thing. They'll just skip it.
- joshspankit 5y ago^ this. ASCII is so old that I picture ANSI colour blocks as it’s successor, and both of those are firmly in the “nightmarish text encoding days”