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This is excessively literal and ignores the actual technical problems and circumstances in a global context related to ASCII and unicode. North Korea calls its
by obviouslygreen 14y ago
This is excessively literal and ignores the actual technical problems and circumstances in a global context related to ASCII and unicode. North Korea calls itself the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Does that mean South Korea is, necessarily, part of the DPRK, since that's what its acronym suggests?
- ZeroGravitas 14y agoI have no idea what you're talking about. The first A in Ascii stands for American. This is because it was an American standard, created by and for Americans. Who pretty much all speak English (and spend dollars $!). What about ascii isn't anglocentric?
- Dewie 14y agoHis point is perfectly viable. If Americans for some reason spoke Romanian, then the ASCII standard would also contain letters such as 'Â','â' (perhaps pushing out some special characters for them), so that Americans would be able to write Romanian on it. ASCII is the way it is because it is convenient for English speakers; it is not the way it is because it is for some reason harder to encode 'Â' then it is to encode 'A'.