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I cannot but agree with Asmus. Sincerely, Erkki Lähettäjä: Unicode [mailto:[email protected]] Puolesta Asmus Freytag (t) Lähetetty: 7. tammikuuta 2016 01:19 Vastaanottaja: [email protected] Aihe: Re: Unicode in the Curriculum? On 1/6/2016 10:59 AM, Shawn Steele wrote: +1 :) I'm not going to join the happy chorus here. The "bunny" slope for most people is their own native language... A./ -----Original Message----- From: Unicode [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Whistler Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 7:44 AM To: Andre Schappo <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Unicode in the Curriculum? Actually, ASCII should *not* be ignored or deprecated. We *love* ASCII. The issue is just making sure that students understand that the *true name* of "ASCII" is "UTF-8". It is just the very first 128 values that open into the entire world of Unicode characters. It is a mind trick to play on young programmers: when you learn "ASCII", you are just playing on the bunny slope at the UTF-8 ski resort. Slap on your snowboard and practice -- get out there onto the 2-, 3- and 4-byte slopes with the experts! --Ken On 1/6/2016 4:09 AM, Andre Schappo wrote: On 4 Jan 2016, at 16:59, Asmus Freytag (t) wrote: 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
