[joshspankit]

Came here to say this. UTF-8/16 represents such a relief from the previous text-encoding nightmares that I run away from any tooling that does not use it.

If anyone else was a web dev in the 90s, you know what I’m talking about.

[MattBlissett]

AsciiDoctor supports Unicode just fine.

We've integrated it with PO4A[0] and CrowdIn.com to support a translation workflow, and so far have one document in Chinese: [1].

Another (tiny) example is [2] with an emoji star, you can "Edit this page" and see the Unicode source.

[0] https://po4a.org/

[1] https://docs.gbif.org/collections-idea-paper/zh/

[2] https://ipt.gbif.org/manual/en/ipt/2.5/data-hosting-centres#...

[SAI_Peregrinus]

The issue is that the name strongly implies that it doesn't. If a system is named "Doesn'tSupportImportantThingSys" don't be surprised when people don't bother to check the documentation to find that it actually does support the important thing. They'll just skip it.

[joshspankit]

^ this.

ASCII is so old that I picture ANSI colour blocks as it’s successor, and both of those are firmly in the “nightmarish text encoding days”