• esa
    31•4 months ago

    With ASCII æs the åriginal sin. Can’t even spell my name with that joke of an encoding >:(

    • The Ramen Dutchman
      9•4 months ago

      To be fair, American Standard Code for Information Interchange was only meant to display English, which doesn’t care about the language your name is from.

      • esa
        1•4 months ago

        Yes I’m being sarcastic, but I also think utf-8 is plaintext these days. I really can’t spell my name in US ASCII. Like the other commenter here went into more detail on, it has its history, but isn’t suited for today’s international computer users.

    • TomMaszEnglish
      5•4 months ago

      Hey, now. Seven bits per character were good enough for Granddad, they should be good enough for you.