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Comment by kiwidrew

> it's missing many many culturally specific things like accents and other diacritics

fun fact: some of the symbols included in ASCII were intended to be used as (non-spacing) diacritical marks, specifically the tilde/caret/backquote characters...

[too lazy to dig up a proper source at the moment but the Wikipedia ASCII article covers some of this]

parent kiwidrew 3 years ago

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