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ASCII should be enough for anyone.
by NotYourLawyer 3y ago
ASCII should be enough for anyone.
- zzo38computer 3y agoASCII is good for a lot of stuff, but not for everything. Sometimes, other character sets/encodings will be better, but which one is better depends on the circumstances. (Unicode does have many problems, though. My opinion is that Unicode is no good.)
- hanche 3y agoAnd who needs more than 640 kilobytes of memory anyhow?
- mckn1ght 3y agoDon’t forget butterflies in case you need to edit some text.
- euroderf 3y agoFilling the upper 128 characters with box-drawing characters was all well & fine, but you'd think IBM might've given some thought instead to defining a character set that would have maximum applicability for the set of all (Roman alphabet -descended) Western languages. (Plus pinyin.)