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by SAI_Peregrinus 1807 days ago
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.
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^ 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”