I added a minor rant to the end of the Wiki ASCII codes page which the powers that be here might want to read and pass judgment on. I'm an XML-head, so such things are important to me, but others either might not feel that way, or there might be other technical reasons for doing it a different way.
Also, the edit page still has that offensive "DO NOT STEAL" on it. I realize this is a bias shared by probably 98% of Americans, Europeans, and others; but that makes it no less an overt expression of bias and political opinion that doesn't belong as a standard feature of the software. We in that other 2%, who still dutifully obey the law as it stands, deserve at the least not to have to see that every time we generously donate to this project.
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