I also just use ASCII when possible; it is the most likely to work and to be portable. For some purposes, other character sets/encodings are better, but which o

I also just use ASCII when possible; it is the most likely to work and to be portable. For some purposes, other character sets/encodings are better, but which ones are better depends on the specific case (not only what language of text but also the use of the text in the computer, etc).