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.
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.
With ASCII æs the åriginal sin. Can’t even spell my name with that joke of an encoding >:(
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.
Hey, now. Seven bits per character were good enough for Granddad, they should be good enough for you.
Are you being sarcastic? I can’t tell.
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.