You're right! My bad - the first characters are encoded the same across ASCII, UTF-8, and Latin-1, but the second half of Latin-1 differs from UTF-8. So even ju

You're right! My bad - the first characters are encoded the same across ASCII, UTF-8, and Latin-1, but the second half of Latin-1 differs from UTF-8. So even just having to support those first 256 code points, we jump into multi-byte UTF-8 territory, meaning complexity over Latin-1.