even if your application only needs to work in ASCII-compatible languages (the only two I can think of are English and Latin)
Neither English nor Latin is ASCII-compatible. You cannot write English correctly in ASCII. Period!

You don’t have proper quotes “like these” — nor distinct em dashes like those. You can’t write ± a few minutes, or 5¢, or ℅ General Delivery, let alone πr². You can’t even write 5÷2, or ©2011. What about 5 o’clock? And don’t get me started with things like jalapeños or résumés.

As for Latin, consider this bit of Latin nested in English:

Etymology: < Latin domināt‑ participial stem of dominārī to bear rule, govern, lord it, < domin‐us lord, master: compare French dominer.

See what I mean? The only English you can write in ASCII looks like bumpkin‐English, a word which I’ve self‐censored.

In reply to Re^3: Save yourself, start all projets with UTF-8 encoding by tchrist
in thread Save yourself, start all projets with UTF-8 encoding by Lady_Aleena

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