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It's 2026, it's been decades since there last was any good reason to use ASCII, you can just write LaΤέΧ now if you want to.
a) Alberat, like most of us lazy people, did not fo that. b) There are a lot of archived online discussions about this in which ASCII was assumed, so when we do start doing that we will omit those resources.