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"Why?" Why not? "If the alternative is garbled text, is that what you choose?" No. The alternative is not garbled text and thats not what I choose. The alternative for me is a subset of ASCII. I choose what characters I will accept, delete the rest. For example, something like tr -cd '[\12\40-\176]' This has worked for me for several decades. Nor am I the only one who uses this approach. I once saw an HN commenter sa…
That’s fair. Is that what links without Unicode support does? (Ignore all byte sequences it doesn’t recognize.) Also, I’d still love to know why you prefer stripping out non-ASCII characters — does this sentence become more readable to you with the em dash omitted?
I can see a dash in 7-bit ASCII. I am not going to lose the meaning of a sentence by forgoing a few Unicode chaacters.