“Universal” has two meaning here: 1. Works with everyone’s language. Which ASCII does not 2. Works on pretty much every machine. Which ASCII does very well.

“Universal” has two meaning here: 1. Works with everyone’s language. Which ASCII does not 2. Works on pretty much every machine. Which ASCII does very well. I’m not defending the use of pure ASCII but if you’re concern is that the text is rendered universally then ASCII wasn’t the worst suggestion a few years back. What you’re arguing is a different requirement and that’s support for peoples languages. If that’s a concern then ASCII isn’t the right choice. Those two requirements are not mutually inclusive.