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On a general note, I think it's time to call things "text" instead of "ascii". Every time someone utters the word "ascii", they just mean text. Saying “I'm usi
by anordal 5y ago
On a general note, I think it's time to call things "text" instead of "ascii".
Every time someone utters the word "ascii", they just mean text. Saying “I'm using ASCII” doesn't mean anything anymore, because nobody uses EBCDIC anymore – you are, no matter what, effectively using a superset of ASCII, by default UTF-8. The real question is which one.
- mmcdermott 5y ago> Saying “I'm using ASCII” doesn't mean anything anymore, because nobody uses EBCDIC anymore I get what you're saying, but I have seen bugs at work caused by distributed systems sending text in ASCII or UTF8 to an IBM z/OS mainframe with EBCDIC.