> For the former you'd always use straight ASCII in 8-bit encoding why is that? IMO internal strings should be treated as black-box byte-arrays, i.e. the spec

> For the former you'd always use straight ASCII in 8-bit encoding why is that? IMO internal strings should be treated as black-box byte-arrays, i.e. the specific content does not matter to the software, except for checking equality between to strings. In this case it should not matter to the software if it is unicode or whatever.