> Obviously that makes internationalization harder, but the advantage is that strings are much simpler to reason about.
Internationalization relative to what? Anyway, just pick any language in the world, i.e. an arbitrary one—can you represent it using just ASCII? If so I would like to know what language that is. It seems that Rotokas can be.[1] That’s about 5K speakers. So you can make computer programs for them.
Internationalization relative to what? Anyway, just pick any language in the world, i.e. an arbitrary one—can you represent it using just ASCII? If so I would like to know what language that is. It seems that Rotokas can be.[1] That’s about 5K speakers. So you can make computer programs for them.
Of course this comment of mine isn’t ASCII-only.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotokas_language