Okay but ascii only covers English. Doesn't even cover all European languages. There is probably something between ascii and utf-8 where you could cover prolly

Okay but ascii only covers English. Doesn't even cover all European languages. There is probably something between ascii and utf-8 where you could cover prolly like 90% of people's needs with English Chinese Japanese Korean Greek Russian. Weird languages that need ligatures and combining symbols are the exception (and in some cases like Korean there is a very finite amount of combinations)