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Re: Unicode in the Curriculum?

• rbanffy 1y ago
  ASCII and UTF-8 are very different things...
  • stop50 1y ago
    I treat ascii as LUCA. Many derive from ist, but utf-8 is the human of encodings: universal and good enough for 99% of usecases.
  • Rendello 1y ago
    There's a little more to it. Ken Whistler is the vice chair of the Unicode Technical Committee [1], and he's responding to tongue-in-cheek to: > I really like the idea of questioning whether or not ASCII should even be taught [...] Wherever in a programming curriculum, text processing/transmission/storage/presentation/encoding is taught, then it should be Unicode text His point is that it's still worth it to learn ASCII, since the now-dominant UTF-8 has basically subsumed it. 1. https://www.unicode.org/consortium/techchairs.html https://www.unicode.org/consortium/techchairs.html
    • rbanffy 1y ago
      It's fair to say ASCII is a very tiny subset of UTF-8. We could retroactively call it UTF-7.