> The real statement is that no one asked a few self-chosen individual who have never travelled beyond their own valley to ruin text handling in computers like

> The real statement is that no one asked a few self-chosen individual who have never travelled beyond their own valley to ruin text handling in computers like the American Standard Code for Information Interchange has. That much is objectively false. Language designers made a choice to use it; they could’ve used other systems. Also LBJ mandated that all systems used by the federal government use ASCII starting in 1969. Arguably that tied language designers hands, since easily the largest customer for computers had chosen ASCII.