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> All languages should handle input and output in all character sets, but > none of them should be written in anything but ASCII. At least for the > next 20 years. Maybe then things will be different, but for now the > breakage is just huge. Well, we've even seen it tonight, something as > simple as email. The first versions of Smalltalk uses special characters that were available on all the input and output devices that every person at Xerox used on a regular basis. They still decided that was a bad idea, and backed out of it very quickly. If the insular folks at Xerox Parc gave it up as a bad idea, it must be a very bad idea indeed.There's stuff above here
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