I couldn't debug the code because of my name

Re:I couldn't debug the code because of my name by tremon on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:28PM (#28935051)

I think it's reasonable to find that morally objectionable: English is the only language* that can be fully represented in ASCII, so pretending that ASCII is all you need excludes a large part of the world.

* yes, by and large. Many languages make do, but even the European languages that use the same script as English cannot be fully represented:

- Pretty much all mainland European languages use accents (simple example, in Spanish el and él are different words)

- French misses ç

- German/Swiss/Austrian misses ß

- Spanish misses ñ

- Dutch misses ĳ

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Re:I couldn't debug the code because of my name by InitialLastName on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:15PM (#28936734)

It's naïve of you to maintain the façade that English can be fully represented in ASCII. We've just had longer than other languages to adapt to that particular encoding technology, and the good luck to have a code set built to represent our language become the lingua franca of computer technology.

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Re:I couldn't debug the code because of my name by tremon on Friday October 22, 2021 @07:04AM (#28955745)

A single example is worth more than a thousand slights.

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Re:I couldn't debug the code because of my name by Symbiote on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:59PM (#28935538)

Not even Britain and Ireland can manage with ASCII: they need £ and €.

I agree with you, and disagree strongly with dahfizz, who is essentially telling people their name and language are unacceptable.

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Re:I couldn't debug the code because of my name by Muromec on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:46PM (#28935315)

Cyrillic-writing countries miss all of their alphabets and so does Greek.

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