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by hexo 61 days ago
because it is common sense
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sensanaty 60 days ago
Definitely isn't for non-technical users. I guarantee you if you asked basically any random Joe on the street what ASCII means they'd have no clue.

https://xkcd.com/2501/

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QuantumNomad_ 61 days ago
It makes about as much sense to insist that everyone across the world use only US ASCII, as it makes to force everyone in the world to use only Cyrillic UTF-8 symbols. I.e. no sense at all.
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