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Asked: 2024-09-23 17:24:41 +0800 CST

Unicode Brexit-ascii

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I've installed the unicode package using apt install unicode on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS:

unicode/noble,noble,now 3.1-1 all [installed]
  display unicode character properties

The help text shows a peculiar option "--brexit-ascii":

  --ascii               Display ASCII table
  --brexit-ascii, --brexit
                        Display ASCII table (EU-UK Trade and Cooperation
                        Agreement version)

What exactly is this "ASCII table (EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement version)"? I couldn't find any technical information about it. Is there actually such a thing or is it some sort of political protest from the developer?

unicode

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  1. Best Answer

    It's a joke. The EU-UK agreement mentioned here included a copy of ASCII in the appendices (see this post on Politics.SE), but they badly mangled the formatting. From the screenshot provided there:

    9.3 Appendix 3: Character codes

    You can see how that last row is messed up. This option shows that exact table, with the messed up formatting.

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