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It'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 stop
by Avshalom 13y ago
It'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