ASCII does still map to the most commonly used parts of Unicode, so there is that. I would agree that I wouldn't have the foggiest idea what most of the ASCII character codes are if I hadn't cut my teeth on archaic stuff like QBasic; I remember a lot of silly little toy assignments doing rot13 or manually upper and lowercasing strings. But they do come up from time to time when you get into, for instance, JS keydown/keyup events. But any competently designed modern API ought to at least have named constants for this kind of crap
Don’t ask me why I remember that the lazy non performant way to put a character on the screen in assembly was to store the ASCII number in the A register and
JSR $FDED
The fast way was to copy the bytes directly to the $400-$7FF address space and figure out the non contiguous memory map -> screen yourself.
