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There are more charitable readings of that article. Did it specify an encoding?

If you don't specify an encoding then the claim that "Every device, including ones long gone, and ones not invented yet, can read and edit plain text." is false.

Statements like that clearly shows the author means ASCII is the default everywhere.

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