Re: Unicode in the Curriculum?

I treat ascii as LUCA. Many derive from ist, but utf-8 is the human of encodings: universal and good enough for 99% of usecases.

There's a little more to it. Ken Whistler is the vice chair of the Unicode Technical Committee [1], and he's responding to tongue-in-cheek to:

> I really like the idea of questioning whether or not ASCII should even be taught [...] Wherever in a programming curriculum, text processing/transmission/storage/presentation/encoding is taught, then it should be Unicode text

His point is that it's still worth it to learn ASCII, since the now-dominant UTF-8 has basically subsumed it.

1. https://www.unicode.org/consortium/techchairs.html