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Re:UTF-8 Everywhere by perilunar on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @04:36AM (#22875696)
> and all ASCII ever was

Except that's not true. The ASCII control codes were never glyphs, but were used to control the hardware.

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Re:UTF-8 Everywhere by carapace on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @12:27PM (#22879683)
Sorry, what I mean was ASCII wasn't an encoding of the English language, just an encoding of the English alphabet and some other symbols.

You're quite right that, uh, meta-linguistic symbols are also in there and that does kind of complicate my argument.

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