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[-] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Older, but still in use everywhere.

[-] yukijoou 4 points 1 year ago

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!

[-] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

You underestimate the amount of legacy code, or standards that enforce it like AIS for ship transponders or ASTERIX for aircraft callsigns etc.

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