• esa
    31•16 days ago

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

    • Fonzie!
      9•15 days 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•15 days 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•15 days ago

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