> it's missing many many culturally specific things like accents and other diacritics fun fact: some of the symbols included in ASCII were intended to be used

> it's missing many many culturally specific things like accents and other diacritics fun fact: some of the symbols included in ASCII were intended to be used as (non-spacing) diacritical marks, specifically the tilde/caret/backquote characters... [too lazy to dig up a proper source at the moment but the Wikipedia ASCII article covers some of this]