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How do you guarantee that file is ascii? I would think it rapidly would become non-ascii for most users, even for English speakers. You can’t write café in asci

How do you guarantee that file is ascii? I would think it rapidly would become non-ascii for most users, even for English speakers. You can’t write café in ascii, for example, use curly quotes, or write a pound, euro, or yen sign

evandale 3y ago
I'm not the parent, but I personally can't think of a single instance where I would write "café" instead of "cafe". I can't imagine needing to use a pound, euro, or yen sign either. I'd probably just write pound, euro, or yen if I needed to talk about those currencies. It's a pain to use any of those characters on every device I use so I don't see how any of them could get in the file if I were to adopt this.
paulddraper 3y ago
Most people write only the characters on their QUERTY keyboards. cafe, resume, fiance, etc
- ElectricalUnion 3y ago
  But are you gonna generate 100% of such files using only your typing? What about Input Method Editors or copy-pasting?
1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago
"How do you guarantee that the file is ascii." I use an HTML reader set to 7-bit ASCII. If necessary I replace or eliminate non-ASCII characters I do not want. I often use flex or tr for this task. In the situation described in the comment, I'm not sharing these files with anyone else. I'm reading these files myself. As such, other users' preferences are irrelevant. The submission is about ASCII for "network exchange". But the comment replied to here is not necessarily about ASCII for network exchange. It's about a method used by yours truly for reading large ASCII files.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago
  s/characters/bytes/