On: Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient

[scottw]

If this were a few more years recent, I'd hope the author would revise section 2.5 to be "The virtues of UTF-8", as nearly all modern text editors handle UTF-8 well.

[delayclose → scottw]

Even for ten years ago, forgetting that other countries need to typeset too was kind of lame. ASCII is seriously limited outside American context.