> un-renderable in ASCII It's inexcusable for a modern user-facing system to be limited to ASCII for names or strings. Most of the world's languages, English a

> un-renderable in ASCII It's inexcusable for a modern user-facing system to be limited to ASCII for names or strings. Most of the world's languages, English and Malay being the biggest exceptions, cannot be rendered in ASCII. ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1), and its derivative CP 1252 help a lot but still don't provide characters for all Latin-alphabet languages. My own language, despite using the Latin alphabet as a base, didn't get a standard encoding until 1998, and I'd usually see it rendered incorrectly until Unicode took over. And that's without even considering languages that use other scripts.