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:Not everyone speaks in a language that is adequately conveyed by ASCII. And even in English, some problems are routinely described using non-ASCII characters (just general maths equations comes to mind). We have learnt to convert to ASCII, and may not even notice we are doing it in english, but speakers of other languages might feal more pain. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 00:11, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
::Even for English speakers, ASCII has always been a compromise. Math symbols as mentioned; accented characters à la "café"; real quote marks; hyphens/dashes; currency marks, chapter marks, common symbols, ligatures, etc. We are no longer in the age where 64k memory is the norm and 640k ought to be big enough for everybody, so we really shouldn't keep ourselves in the narrow mindset of lower 7 bits. --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 00:58, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
:::You do not need to speak English. You just need to speak the language of the of compiler or interpreter. You can still use produce Unicode programmatically, without the need to use non ascii source code. There are lots of arguments against Unicode in source code, but you will need to google for these. I am not going to go into all of these arguments here. One of the big problems was that the Egyptian and Thailand glyphs and some of the Chinese characters are not sufficiently different from each other to prevent confusion from readers that do not use these languages. [[User:Markhobley|Markhobley]] 16:16, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
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