[poisonborz]

Unfortunate naming. When most devs think of "ascii" they think "oh that character encoding you shouldn't use anymore"

[numeromancer]

ASCII makes up 90% of all digital text; UTF-8 makes up the other 90%.

[dominicrose]

On a side note, it's still part of almost all character encodings, since it only occupies half of an octet. Obviously for many languages and special chars we need another "half".

[esafak]

The fraction of people who have heard of ASCII is steadily shrinking so you need not worry!

[santiagobasulto]

I agree. The first time I heard the name I had the same impression.