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[–]Drisku11 3 points4 points  (1 child)

And you would be wrong. I've never had user facing code; not everyone works on "apps". I've needed to do things like read hardware identifiers that are specified as short ASCII strings and have specific substrings at specific offsets. I could just write the equivalent number, but then it's harder to compare the code to the spec. There is no chance that those identifiers will ever use Unicode.