His 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

His 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'.