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minus-squareyukijoou@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 months agowell, i’d say more systems use unicode nowadays, especially if you only count user-facing software… though, yeah, because univode is a superset of ascii, ascii’s still technically very much in use and very popular!
minus-squareAmaltheamannenlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoYou underestimate the amount of legacy code, or standards that enforce it like AIS for ship transponders or ASTERIX for aircraft callsigns etc.
Older, but still in use everywhere.
well, i’d say more systems use unicode nowadays, especially if you only count user-facing software…
though, yeah, because univode is a superset of ascii, ascii’s still technically very much in use and very popular!
You underestimate the amount of legacy code, or standards that enforce it like AIS for ship transponders or ASTERIX for aircraft callsigns etc.