[LoSboccacc]

i wonder why they call for Unicode usage when the extended ascii 219 - 223 could do the same

e: lol why downvoting the inquisitive reader? this community sheeesh. hacker news seems a misnomer more than anything.

[ygra]

Depending on the codepage ... extended ASCII is just as much a misnomer here as ASCII in the original post.

[echeese]

Okay how about codepage 437 then

[tomcooks]

Because ASCII is an American-centric standard that needs to die, in favor of more inclusive standards?

Unicode is already not common enough, last thing that IMHO is needed are _more_ programs that don't implement well accepted, well tested standards.