I agree with every point in this article, if we do a global search-replace s/ASCII/utf-8/g. Seven years ago? I would have felt the same way but the arguments a

I agree with every point in this article, if we do a global search-replace s/ASCII/utf-8/g. Seven years ago? I would have felt the same way but the arguments against it would have been persuasive. Now? No, please allow the entire planet to use their native languages, using the One True Encoding, utf-8. There are also circumstances where a prose line width of 78 is appropriate, we're not all contributing to email chains and a single level of quote-indentation is probably fine.