Annoyance with coding systems

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an seachtú lá de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: 

 >    Fabrice> Not sure all this stuff is well suited to beginners...
 > 
 > It's not.  But neither is the real world of text.

We could be doing it so much better, all the same :-( . 

 > [...] Unicode is far from perfect, but it's good enough for daily use.
 > But only a few minor nations, in Africa and I believe Vietnam, have
 > adopted it as the main national standard.  (And of course the U.S., since
 > ASCII is legal UTF-8---which infuriates everybody else.)

Ah, I think everyone else has accepted the predilection  for ASCII of the US
as a given at this point. And to be fair to them, Apple and Microsoft have
done sterling work for decent Unicode support in the OSes. 

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