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Ah, cool, someone already had the same thought: > I'll eagerly await the ASCII-only "You Don't Need Unicode"

• em-bee 3y ago
  the foreign language speakers here would like to have a word...
  • innocenat 3y ago
    Good old codepage to the rescue! (Yes, I know technically codepage isn't ASCII. I guess you could use box drawing extension to draw foreign language character if you wanted. Or maybe just SVG of the text)
    • em-bee 3y ago
      please not codepages. finally being able to write multiple languages in a single document, which is something i need to do frequently, really makes a difference. codepages were a nightmare compared to the simplicity that unicode is in this aspect.
      • innocenat 3y ago
        Yes, that's the joke.
  • ris58h 3y ago
    ... but they couldn't...
  • vunuxodo 3y ago
    They should have thought of that before they put non-ASCII characters in their language.