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Unfortunate naming. When most devs think of "ascii" they think "oh that character encoding you shouldn't use anymore"
by poisonborz 2y ago
Unfortunate naming. When most devs think of "ascii" they think "oh that character encoding you shouldn't use anymore"
- santiagobasulto 2y agoI agree. The first time I heard the name I had the same impression.
- dominicrose 2y agoOn a side note, it's still part of almost all character encodings, since it only occupies half of an octet. Obviously for many languages and special chars we need another "half".
- numeromancer 2y agoASCII makes up 90% of all digital text; UTF-8 makes up the other 90%.
- esafak 2y agoThe fraction of people who have heard of ASCII is steadily shrinking so you need not worry!