On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:24:55 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer
<pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:

>>>Unicode has a lot of inertia at this point, and 7-bit ASCII has more.  I
>>>can reasonably expect both of them to last long after my death, and docs
>>>and conversion programs until civilization collapses to the point
>>>computers are gone.
>>
>> How about EBCDIC?

>What about it?  If I needed to read it, it would be one-line awk script
>away.  Sort of my point.

Can you reasonably expect it to last long after your death?

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