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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Issues There is always what we had before: ASCII + Codepages, 128 standard fixed chars and 128 "extended" chars dependent on the selected Codepage. We could've just agreed on a control character to use as an escape for switching codepage and called it done. That wouldn't have given us such robust support for diacritics however.