Miss Dada  🏳️‍⚧️

Me: *15 minute rant about all the ways in which everybody who has worked on computers should be ashamed of how badly we handle â* Tess: "And you thought this was the cop-out name change"

I get that going from ascii to all of unicode is often a huge leap, and in some cases there are legit security concerns without obvious solutions, and I'm not expecting average American to know every character from every language. But this is in Latin-1 and CP437...

This character has almost certainly been in the default text encoding for whatever computer anyone in America has been using since they've been using computers.

I'm not advocating for software to default to latin-1 or cp437 as its default set of supported characters or anything, but expecting Americans to know what the characters in that set are seems reasonable