>, and why 7bit ascii is the standard for computing. The US. > Simplicity. Oh... > Diacritical marks (training wheels) and unicode break this simplicity, yo

>, and why 7bit ascii is the standard for computing. The US. > Simplicity. Oh... > Diacritical marks (training wheels) and unicode break this simplicity, you cannot program in a language with many characters that are hard/impossible to distinguish. Many languages get by with their communication in spite of having things like "spots over the o's" or whatever. I have no problem distinguishing them. Do you have experience with reading such languages? Or are you simply blowing hot air? Ever looked at typewriter font for l and 1? Yeah, these things are not historical accidents at all... > Unicode is a luxury to pretty things up for end users, not something to do serious work in. It's a luxury for end users... yes, non-English users should count their blessings when they are able to use their whole alphabet. Part of this issue was correctly spelling the name of an Austrian physicist, not someone trying to write "cat" with some esoteric Unicode that looks like a cat.