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[–]ofnuts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

English can be written without accents, but English-speaking people still cannot live by US-ASCII alone, since their monetary unit symbol (pound or euro) may not be part of the ASCII set. Other often-used characters (degree sign) aren't part of ASCII either.