Maybe, in the interest of interplanetaryization (i19n ?) and
multigalacticism (m13m ?) we should start using FoPSCII and
Galicode references in our documents and noting that ASCII and
Unicode are temporary substitutes.
It hardly seems worth the effort, since the only difference between
ASCII and FoPSCII is that the ASCII # is replaced by the modern
currency symbol, and, of course, they put the little gap back in the
vertical bar to resolve the concerns about religious and cultural
insensitivty.
R's,
John