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Re:Software Is Hard (2007) by amelius on Sunday October 27, 2019 @05:48AM (#21368728)
> ASCII doesn't even cover all of the characters and symbols that are normally used by English speakers.

Such as?

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Re:Software Is Hard (2007) by dri_ft on Sunday October 27, 2019 @06:40AM (#21368912)
Forward and backward quote marks. Different kinds of dash - the en-dash and em-dash.
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Re:Software Is Hard (2007) by sly010 on Sunday October 27, 2019 @08:44AM (#21369359)
Emojis.
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Re:Software Is Hard (2007) by amelius on Sunday October 27, 2019 @11:09AM (#21370185)
Some people would argue that emojis don't belong in Unicode because they evolve too quickly and new ones need to be added too often, and the Unicode standard simply won't be able to keep up. As such it would hinder the expression of users, and it would stifle the evolution of online expression.
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