rethink

Today lesson was very interesting it was all about character how they came about and why. One of the interesting thing was ASIIC have used 7 bit to create 128 characters because in 1960 computer power where not as powerful as today. But as computers increase processing power so does the creation of more characters. For example Unicode have used, even maybe pushed the limit beyond necessary in creating a system which can hold over 4 billion character, In my understanding on this planet you would not find so many character unless we start interacting with other (A.I).
Unicode, they are very good in keeping historical information and making new character available from different culture for computation but I can’t see any programming advantage in digitalising dead language.