Re: Advantages of Diversity and Inclusion

[Jim Jagielski]

On 2019/07/14 06:11:46, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> Nicolas,
> 

> A great example of this is ASCII. The developers (English
> speakers in the US in the late 50's and early 60's) saw no real problem
> with omitting ü, å, ø and ñ. 

Certainly some of that was likely the limitation of the technology itself, what 
with 8 bit chars. It was including the lowest common denominator that fit 
within a technology derived limit. Also, I you design something just for 
English speaking people, for example, and what you create becomes so popular 
that others wish to use it, I’m not sure if you can assign 20/20 hindsight.