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		mmwelt on March 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Art of Plain Text (2015) What's wrong with using UTF-8? Disregarding that I may want to write documents in a language that needs non-ASCII characters, I may want to use names of people or places that use non-ASCII characters.

every on March 12, 2022 [–]

The first 128 characters of Unicode (UTF-8) correspond one-to-one with US-ASCII...

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