Never stored in ASCII, never limited to ASCII. They're UTF-8, usually. If somebody's name happens to fit into ASCII that's irrelevant because it's not guarante

Never stored in ASCII, never limited to ASCII. They're UTF-8, usually. If somebody's name happens to fit into ASCII that's irrelevant because it's not guaranteed, so you can never blindly do an ASCII case conversion. For text data meant for users, I literally cannot remember the last time I used a string in ASCII format as opposed to UTF-8 (or UTF-16 in JS). It's certainly over a decade ago. So yes, when I say never, I literally mean never. Nothing "very silly" about it, sorry. (Again, excepting identifiers, where case conversion is not generally applicable.)