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How is it easiest "for them" to have the mess instead of having the newer standard be less messy?

• bluGill 3y ago
  because the current mess means all their old stuff still works. ASCII is good so long as you only need English (or any other latin languages without the various accents), which was good enough for a long time - and ASCII was also carefully designed to make programming easier - flip one bit changes lower/uppercase for example, but there are more things it makes easy. By the time we realized we actually care about the rest or the world it was too late to make a nice system.
  • eviks 3y ago
    The real world never respected your artificial ASCII limitations, so that part never worked because people always needed more. But the original comment states that composition is a source of mess, not the ASCII having the same code point, and that's the puzzling part