This kind of assertiveness leads to garbage like C++ still not supporting UTF8 properly in 2023. My name contains diacritics. I am so, so, so tired of trying to work around information systems - not just web frontends - designed by people who don't care or worse, don't want to care.
"Web" programmers can care all they want about Unicode, but if the backend people didn't deal properly with text encoding, then something will break no matter what.
> There are plenty of software realms where ASCII not only is enough, but it actually MUST be enough.
"Web" programmers can care all they want about Unicode, but if the backend people didn't deal properly with text encoding, then something will break no matter what.
> There are plenty of software realms where ASCII not only is enough, but it actually MUST be enough.
Name one.