Probably, a large part of the answer is that you can walk away from these tables in horror and simply assume YCbCr or grayscale, and still show most files in th

Probably, a large part of the answer is that you can walk away from these tables in horror and simply assume YCbCr or grayscale, and still show most files in the wild correctly. Serenity seems to do just that. For text, UTF-8 is still not quite as dominant.