Nothing I do in my ordinary routine full-time engineering work for the past decade has required or does require anything outside the ASCII character set or, alt

Nothing I do in my ordinary routine full-time engineering work for the past decade has required or does require anything outside the ASCII character set or, alternatively, plain bytes. The use cases my users present to me does not include emoji or non-ASCII characters. If those arise, naturally, one would select tools to address those needs. I don't know the future. In a year or two, my routine work may, of course, change.