If you were designing ASCII today, why wouldn’t you put ‘a’ at 0?
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Replying to @matthew_d_green
We wouldn't be designing ASCII today We'd be designing a better Unicode (Unicode is pretty good for the very hard problems it's solving, but for the sake of argument) Putting the English alphabet first has bad social effects, reinforcing cultural imperialism
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Replying to @ireneista @matthew_d_green
OTOH, putting the english alphabet first made UTF-8 backwards-compatible with ASCII, which simplified adoption
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No, all that was needed was that ASCII didn't assign meaning to all 256 byte values. Order wasn't important.
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