I too felt 7 bit ascii was a good thing, and I believe I know members of the original ANSI committee who worked on it.
But, I now live and work in the Asia-Pacific region, and I regularly interact with data and content which is not represented in 7 bit ascii. This has altered my perspective.
My comrades from 7 bit land also migrated into a world of homophones. It is entirely true you can get into some awful places regarding what things look like and what semantically they mean, but the one thing that has never come up, is what errors of handling it introduced into the code: the code, is doing what it does. It is how you interpret it, that has to change.
uStrings just work. Unclench your Undead fists, and accept the news from your brothers and sisters outside of paper tape.
But, I now live and work in the Asia-Pacific region, and I regularly interact with data and content which is not represented in 7 bit ascii. This has altered my perspective.
My comrades from 7 bit land also migrated into a world of homophones. It is entirely true you can get into some awful places regarding what things look like and what semantically they mean, but the one thing that has never come up, is what errors of handling it introduced into the code: the code, is doing what it does. It is how you interpret it, that has to change.
uStrings just work. Unclench your Undead fists, and accept the news from your brothers and sisters outside of paper tape.