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by mikewarot 7 days ago
Unicode isn't the devil. Deliberately break compatibility and forcing everyone to rewrite code is. There were compatible ways to do it, but political correctness won out.

>Axe grind me harder daddy.

My axes are ambient authority based operating systems, programmers who call themselves engineers, and case sensitive programming languages. Unicode is fine, just don't take away my ASCII. ;-)