14 Oct
2016
14 Oct
'16
2:26 a.m.
On 13.10.16 17:50, Chris Angelico wrote:
Solution: Abolish most of the control characters. Let's define a brand new character encoding with no "alphabetical garbage". These characters will be sufficient for everyone:
* [2] Formatting characters: space, newline. Everything else can go. * [8] Digits: 01234567 * [26] Lower case Latin letters a-z * [2] Vital social media characters: # (now officially called "HASHTAG"), @ * [2] Can't-type-URLs-without-them: colon, slash (now called both "SLASH" and "BACKSLASH")
That's 40 characters that should cover all the important things anyone does - namely, Twitter, Facebook, and email. We don't need punctuation or capitalization, as they're dying arts and just make you look pretentious.