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> ASCII only for talking to the computer is a bit of an outdated concept at this point It's not. The mapping between ASCII and keyboard keys is clear. Wherever
by cultureswitch 3y ago
> ASCII only for talking to the computer is a bit of an outdated concept at this point
It's not. The mapping between ASCII and keyboard keys is clear. Wherever unambiguous English text is required (for example programming and documentation), ASCII is still the best.
Each person may want to use renderers that will do fancy things, and that's fine because it's on the render side. The issue with Unicode is that it's a messy mix of presentation and data. ASCII isn't. So whenever you create a Unicode document, you are unintentionally embedding presentation information into it, and it's not the case with ASCII.