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ASCII: what a disaster. As anyone who's ever had to program in any language other than English will have discovered.
by mogrim 13y ago
ASCII: what a disaster. As anyone who's ever had to program in any language other than English will have discovered.
- angersock 13y agoPax americana, my friend.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> ASCII: what a disaster. As anyone who's ever had to program in any language other than English will have discovered. Isn't programming always in some language other than English?
- StefanKarpinski 13y agoASCII: the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
- Avshalom 13y agoIt's not that ASCII is a disaster. It the refusal to default to larger encodings for so long after it became obviously useful (that is as soon as computers stopped being one offs).
- EvanAnderson 13y agoBob Bemer, often cited as the "Father of ASCII", proposed escape sequences to extend ASCII to handle larger encodings in 1960, pre-standardization. http://www.bobbemer.com/ESCAPE.HTM http://www.bobbemer.com/ESCAPE.HTM
- Dylan16807 13y agoWhat else would you use? The only sane format for storing text is unicode, and unicode is a superset of ASCII. Unicode also is an enormous undertaking so don't be impatient about it. Go ahead and complain about the proliferation of 8-bit extensions of ASCII, but that's not a problem with ASCII itself.