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Come on. We had long past the ASCII only era.

For people downvoting this guy, he's saying we're long past the ASCII era, and he is NOT saying we're long past the TEXT era.

It's the America-centric ASCII stuff that we're past, not plain text itself.

UTF-8 forever!

ASCII is eternal

Tell that to the French, Germans, Russians, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Spanish, Norwegians, etc. pp.