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I ran into encoding problems so many times, I just use ASCII aggressively now. There is still kanji, Hanzi, etc. but at least for Western alphabets, not worth t
by juujian 3y ago
I ran into encoding problems so many times, I just use ASCII aggressively now. There is still kanji, Hanzi, etc. but at least for Western alphabets, not worth the hassle.
- layer8 3y agoThe article isn’t about non-Unicode encodings.
- juujian 3y agoMeant to write ASCII
- zzo38computer 3y agoI also just use ASCII when possible; it is the most likely to work and to be portable. For some purposes, other character sets/encodings are better, but which ones are better depends on the specific case (not only what language of text but also the use of the text in the computer, etc).
- arp242 3y agoThis works fine as a personal choice, but doesn't really work if you're writing something other random people interact with. Even for just English it doesn't work all that well because it lacks things like the Euro which is fairly common (certainly in Europe), there are names with diacritics (including "native" names, e.g. in Ireland it's common), there are too many loanwords with diacritics, and ASCII has a somewhat limited set of punctuation. There are some languages where this can sort of work (e.g. Indonesian can be fairly reliably written in just ASCII), although even there you will run in to some of these issue. It certainly doesn't work for English, and even less for other Latin-based European languages.