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by acdha 1380 days ago
> This avoids various headaches down the line, since Unicode is not cross-compatible across devices and having everything in ASCII is a saner way to approach that.

Did you mean to say that not all programs support Unicode? It's been a long time — at least a decade — since I ran into a device which doesn't support it at all, as opposed to something like PHP code which has built-in support but didn't enable it.