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It was a mess back then though. Unicode fixed that.
by procaryote 7mo ago
It was a mess back then though. Unicode fixed that.
- zabzonk 7mo agoI'm not convinced that Unicode fixed anything. I was kind of hoping, way back when, that everyone would adopt ASCII, as a step to a more united world. But things seem to have got more differentiated, and made things much more difficult.
- simonask 7mo agoFor whom? Certainly not any of the humans trying to use the computer.
- procaryote 7mo agoThe options were never ASCII or unicode though. Before unicode we had ASCII + lots of different incompatible encodings that relied on metadata to be properly rendered. That's what unicode fixed Besides I like being able to put things like →, €, ∞ or ∆ into text. With ascii a lot of things that are nowadays trivial would need markup languages