Well your post here has non-ascii characters. But perhaps you wrote it in in Word and copy-pasted it into Internet Explorer. I've seen that approach recommended

Well your post here has non-ascii characters. But perhaps you wrote it in in Word and copy-pasted it into Internet Explorer. I've seen that approach recommended to avoid data loss. It's not entirely clear what your objection is tho, since you recommend permitting UTF-8 which allows you to represent many many more non-ascii characters than ascii characters.