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>> In this day and age, saying "Only USASCII has any place on the
>> Internet" (or even just "in email") is tantamount to saying, "If
>> your first language is anything but English, sod off, we don't want
>> you around here."

Not so much "first language" as "operating language".  I know someone
whose first language is French, but who operates almost excusively in
English these days.

> Note the "US" in "US-ASCII".  It omits characters used elsewhere in
> the Anglosphere.

Certainly.  It also omits some characters used in the USA in the days
before everything got smushed into compatability with computers.

> So this is just good old American exceptionalism.

It is.  There are a lot of legacy issues deriving from the USA being
where much of computing got its start.  They aren't all linguistic
bias, either.  There are at least a few characters that would be useful
to have even when working in US English, but have all but disappeared
because they aren't in modern ASCII - not-equal, less-or-equal, and
greater-or-equal are examples.  Back in the early '80s I met plain-text
terminals that displayed 0x5f as a left-pointing arrow - today that's
universally underscore.  I'm sure there are others.  (There _are_
exceptions to the ASCII hegemony even in the USA, but they're fairly
rare.  APL is the first one that comes to my mind.)

And there are non-character-set issues, too, such as the USA being the
only country whose government gets its own TLD (.gov).

I don't have any good fixes.  I think there are no really _good_ fixes,
mostly because of the immense entrenched installed base.

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