On 4 Jan 2016, at 16:59, Asmus Freytag (t) wrote: > On 1/4/2016 6:44 AM, Elizabeth J. Pyatt wrote: >> Like some others on the list, I believe Unicode should be mentioned at >> different points in a programming curriculum, particularly at the time when >> ASCII would be taught. > ASCII shouldn't be taught, perhaps?
I really like the idea of questioning whether or not ASCII should even be taught. Wherever in a programming curriculum, text processing/transmission/storage/presentation/encoding is taught, then it should be Unicode text. ASCII, along with, ISO-8859 ISO-2022 GB2312 …etc… should be consigned to …and finally, the legacy character sets/encodings... Maybe ASCII should now be flagged as deprecated https://twitter.com/andreschappo/status/684706421712228352 André Schappo
