The root of it is that most things still assume ASCII, etc by default. I griped about this a while ago, as a whole, we should be moving all our tools to being U

The root of it is that most things still assume ASCII, etc by default. I griped about this a while ago, as a whole, we should be moving all our tools to being UTF-8 by default, and ASCII being the 'odd' case instead of the other way around!