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by cartesius13 1523 days ago
>Yea, who cares about Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Thai. F those languages!

Despite your snarkiness, this is a perfectly valid point. If i'm not gonna use certain features in a piece of software, that feature may as well not be there. There are enough alternatives so that people that do need to use these languages are well served. But if that's not my case, there's no point in making my stuff compatible with it since it's not of any use to me

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It's actually not. Text mode doesn't mean you have to use an 8-bit code like Code Page 437. You could just as well use Unicode. It really just makes GP sound like they're looking for an excuse to be snarky and they just come off sounding ignorant.