Every computer science problem eventually ends with The Unicode Problem and its various agendas. Personally I avoid Unicode in my editor and use ASCII at all times. If I have to deal with Unicode, I escape it into the relevant ASCII equivalent and normalize things like emojis to ASCII. This avoids various headaches down the line, since Unicode is not cross-compatible across devices and having everything in ASCII is a saner way to approach that.
> This avoids various headaches down the line, since Unicode is not cross-compatible across devices and having everything in ASCII is a saner way to approach that.
Did you mean to say that not all programs support Unicode? It's been a long time — at least a decade — since I ran into a device which doesn't support it at all, as opposed to something like PHP code which has built-in support but didn't enable it.
