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There are tens of thousands of characters in all the human scripts. If you're a librarian, scholar, researcher -- why would you not want to be able to use them seamlessly??


If there was a complicated tool that claimed it could do the job of every tool in history, or a simple tool that was focused to cover 99% of the work you do-- and we lived on planet earth-- which would you choose?


Umm... but ASCII doesn't work for 99% of people's work.

A majority of the world's population have writing systems that ASCII doesn't encode.

So not really sure what you're suggesting here.




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