Newbie question about text encoding

[Rustom Mody]

On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 10:33:44 PM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 2/26/2015 8:24 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> >> Wrote something up on why we should stop using ASCII:
> >> http://blog.languager.org/2015/02/universal-unicode.html
> 
> I think that the main point of the post, that many Unicode chars are 
> truly planetary rather than just national/regional, is excellent.

<snipped>

> You should add emoticons, but not call them or the above 'gibberish'.
> I think that this part of your post is more 'unprofessional' than the 
> character blocks.  It is very jarring and seems contrary to your main point.

Ok Done

References to gibberish removed from
http://blog.languager.org/2015/02/universal-unicode.html 

What I was trying to say expanded here
http://blog.languager.org/2015/03/whimsical-unicode.html
[Hope  the word 'whimsical' is less jarring and more accurate than 'gibberish']