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I've never been to the US.

Before you hurl incorrect accusations at others, check out how international keyboards look. All have QWERTY-like (in some cases AZERTY etc. but still similar) layout as a BASE, and the local characters are on top of that. Yes even in China, Japan, Russia, Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia and so on.

This is why languages center around this charset, and why it'll stay like that.

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> All have QWERTY-like (in some cases AZERTY etc. but still similar) layout as a BASE.

But not the Latin charset as the single one that can be entered. Let's pick a random one on your list, Russia for example. Funny thing appears, it's clear that you haven't visited Russia for example, hint: Cyrillic on keyboards. Shall we continue? ASCII is not the world's default and never should be.

And incorrect? No, maybe I should've just said narrow-minded instead of American.

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