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0 pointsuser59944619y ago0 comments

> When receiving Unicode I always make sure it's in the ASCII range. [...] Western people are very lucky that ASCII includes most of their characters...

Please don't spread the myth of Western languages being encodable in ASCII, and don't pretend to support Unicode (or anything else than English) if you filter everything to ASCII.

The _only_ Western language that is encodable in ASCII is English.

Corollary: English is the only language that can be encoded in ASCII.

The other western languages have endless issues with text being encoded/stripped down to ASCII. e.g. French, Spanish, Portuguese, German...

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jstimpfle9y ago

As a german I can attest that I can very well converse (e.g Email) in ASCII. Although it's convenient to use Umlauts, which I do. And I also agree that French or Spanish might be less convenient.

But that was not my point. The point was about identifiers, such as DNS names.

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