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> people who use languages with ASCII alphabets exclusively may think it's unjustified And what languages would that be? (given that even some borrowed words i
by throwaddzuzxd 5y ago
> people who use languages with ASCII alphabets exclusively may think it's unjustified
And what languages would that be? (given that even some borrowed words in English have the letter é for instance)
- lonelygirl15a 5y agoAnd that's why the ' character is in ASCII. Print a lowercase e, backspace, and grave accent ', and you have printed é. Underscore, ^, and other characters are there specifically for overstriking. Not many terminals do that any more, though...